Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Posted on 03/03/2019 2:48:22 PM PST by jazusamo
Decriminalizing prostitution — an idea gaining momentum among some Democrats, including at least one 2020 presidential contender — may one day be traced back to the hookers plying their trade under the elevated train along New York City’s Roosevelt Avenue.
That open-air market of prostitutes and johns in Queens, undeterred by constant threat of arrest and incarceration, has been cited by New York state lawmakers mulling whether it’s time to wave the white flag in the war on the world’s oldest profession.
The decriminalization debate among Democrats spilled into the 2020 presidential race last month when Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California said she was supportive of the idea — though the legalization crowd complained that she was still too timid.
It was less than a decade ago that the Democratic Party embraced same-sex marriage and just three years ago that it formally adopted a platform plank to legalize marijuana. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva of Arizona, chairman emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said decriminalizing sex work is on “that same trajectory.”
“At some point, it will be looked at in a different light,” Mr. Grijalva said.
For now, Ms. Harris appears to be leading the 2020 pack.
She told The Root last week that she would back decriminalization as long as safeguards remain in place to protect sex workers against exploitation by human traffickers and pimps.
“But when you are talking about consenting adults, I think that you know, yes, we should really consider that we can’t criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed,” she said.
It’s a major shift from 2008 when, as San Francisco district attorney, she called the idea ridiculous.
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Hopefully she will enlist Willie Brown in this important crusade.
She needs some extra money....
Legal prostitution suppresses pimps, and also institutes health testing.
My problem with it is the same as my problem with most financial data: it’s past information. If you are with a legal prostitute, all you know is that she passed her health check a month ago. No predicitve power there, either.
Sex work and abortion: no one is being harmed. Blacks never had it so good as under slavery.
Doesn’t say legal. It says decriminalized.
Legal could be taxed. Decriminalized can’t.
The Ho’ Restoration and Dignity Act. Her name will look good on that.
In her case, she never went pro, but she was certainly an all-star amateur.
Hopefully she will enlist Willie Brown in this important crusade.
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She worked under him.
She may also have been his employee once.
2020 Democrat platform:
Infanticide
Open Borders
Socialism
Elimination of Fossil Fuels
Prostitution
Only the GOP could screw this up.
An area she has some experience with.........
She conveniently forgets that many prostitutes aren’t free to consent, so she’d be decriminalizing slavery.
Infanticide, legal pot, legal prostitution, nationalized health care, and planeless skies. Quite a platform.
I guess I’m failing to see where this is a matter for the Federal government.
Can someone enlighten me, in laymans terms?
Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
She is a prostitute.
[ Kamala Harris leads Democrats’ charge to decriminalize prostitution ]
Hey it got her political gain.
“Willy Brown’s Side Piece” - Kurt Schlicter
Trump wants to MAGA. Harris wants to legalize prostitution. Politicians like to major their priorities. Hers has the benefit of soothing her self-esteem.
The jokes just write themselves.
Good thing she didn’t accept money,doing so would disqualify her for the Olympics.
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