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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Giving already underskilled and under-resourced women criminal records that will follow them and further harm them in the job market is awful. It traps them in a cycle of poverty.

Sex work should absolutely be decriminalized. [/quote]

These same women will have no recourse if they are held in brothels next door to your house.  Can't convict a brothel keeper for trafficking/forced sex  work without evidence of criminal activity.  Trafficking then becomes a he-said/she-said hearsay issue.

The amended bill leaves no probable cause for criminal activity for investigators to get search warrants or anything else.

This is the one issue that I am proud to be NIMBY about.  Especially when it can directly impact poor women and children.
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Agreed. By "decriminalizing" without actually setting up any regulatory structure, they're basically opening the door to trafficking.  [/quote]

Women are already victimized enough in the sex trade. This is not setting up clean co-op brothels. The money will go straight to some nasty pimp and them women will be dealt with by violence. Thanks Aleen, Grosse etc.[/quote]

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