Canada's Anti-Prostitution Laws Struck Down By Supreme Court - AP/HuffPo

[WillyT]

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Canada's Anti-Prostitution Laws Struck Down By Supreme Court
AP/HuffPo
12/20/13 10:11 AM ET EST

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OTTAWA (AP) — Canada's highest court has struck down the country's prostitution laws in their entirety in a unanimous 9-0 ruling.

The high court on Friday struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting.

The ruling is a victory for sex workers seeking safer working conditions because it found that the laws violated the charter guarantee to life, liberty and security of the person.

But the Supreme Court of Canada decision also gives Parliament a one-year reprieve to respond with new legislation.

Ontario's Appeal Court previously struck down the ban on brothels on the grounds it exposed women to more danger.

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/canada-anti-prostitution-law_n_4480105.html

[WillyT]

1. No Opinions ???

[bluestate10]

2. You want to blow up DU? Prostitution elicits puritanical passion hereabouts, something about it

dehumanizing women, even women that willingly sell sex. I think the ruling is good and if Parliament has half a brain, it will craft laws that leave acts between consenting adults alone and go after sex slavery hard. Sex slavery is ANY situation where a women, man, girl or boy is made to sell sex against their will or is deceived into selling sex.

[WillyT]

3. I Hear Ya...Regulations To Keep Women Safer...

At least that's one of the things I got out of it.

Plus... being adults, realistic, wise, and recognizing the inevitable.

Wish we could do that here.