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Bill: Prostitution Criminalization Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partisans And Artisans League
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2073
Description[?]:
| Prostitution is a sick and disgusting activity, that you recognise as a career. Vulnerable women, driven to selling themselves, are exploited in this horrendous industry. All that awaits them is alcoholism, drug abuse and STDs. We should offer these women a lifeline instead of pushing them into the countries "reject pile". The practice of prostitution cannot continue! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Current: Prostitution is illegal.
Proposed: Prostitution is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:05:10, June 24, 2005 CET | From | Free Beluzians | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | The Free Beluzians disagree with this statement. Instead of just giving the nod to prostitution, we must instead take steps to regulate it like we would any other industry, such as the meat industry. Certain members in the party disagree that we should regulate it at all, but have comprimised between having the government have no say in prostitution whatsoever, or trying to stop STDs and such. |
| Date | 09:42:38, June 25, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | But it isn't a justifiable industry - its the blatant exploitation of women who have no where else to turn. They sell themselves for money because that is sometimes the only thing they have left. We need to give them a way out instead of making their actions a "career". Please tell me that you like the idea of prostitution in general? By criminalizing prostitution it wouldn't mean that the day the law came to pass we would through them all in jail - no it means that they would be obliged to join the rehabilitation schemes. we can' t live in the twenty-first century and still live with this sickening exploitative practice. |
| Date | 09:49:19, June 25, 2005 CET | From | Free Beluzians | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | Which is why the FBP supports the Prostitue Rehabilitation bill. The FBP also wishes to propose a regulation commitee to set down rules for legal prostitution. There will always be a demand for prostituion and related positions, but we can remove the worst cases without banning it alltogether. I agree, it is a practice that shouldn't exist, and the FBP wishes to remove it as the 'last option' for women who have no where else to turn. But if we remove it, where would they turn? Possibly crime. It would be like another nation's Prohibition against the sale of liquer. |
| Date | 10:19:26, June 25, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | Prostitution is crime! And it is like prohibition, the difference being prohibition is wrong this isn't... |
| Date | 10:21:04, June 25, 2005 CET | From | Free Beluzians | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | And how is making desperate women criminals isn't wrong? |
| Date | 10:21:29, June 25, 2005 CET | From | Free Beluzians | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | Er, that was worded badly. "And how is making desperate women into criminals right?" is what I meant. |
| Date | 20:55:59, June 25, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | Actually PAL at the moment prostitution is not a criminal offence. |
| Date | 00:45:19, June 26, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Prostitution Criminalization Act |
| Message | NMRP thats because the law isn't right, but yes I take your point I should have said it is wrong... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 145 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 44 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 111 |
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