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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This bill isn't to protect women. The quoted advocate says it is to protect trans POC who are sex workers because they are poor. She said pimps are no different than a supervisor at McDs.[/quote]

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