[LAF] Blog post on de-criminalisation of prostitution in San Francisco

[Echo of Freedom]

http://www.melissagira.com/2008/10/29/keeping-san-francisco-safe-from-prostitutes/

Who really is opposing Proposition K, a ballot initiative now before San 
Francisco voters, which would forbid the City from spending public funds on 
arresting and jailing sex workers? Even among sex workers, this ballot 
initiative is not without controversy. We do recognize one common ground: that 
so long as sex workers are criminals, sex workers will never have full civil and 
human rights. Who would oppose the right of sex workers to organize their own 
labor, to have access to health care, to hold law enforcement to the same 
standards as other citizens do? Who would say that it’s not important to prevent 
rape, assault, and even murder of sex workers, if it would risk reducing their 
property values?

The biggest opposition to Prop K isn’t anti-prostitution feminist groups. It’s 
“neighborhood associations.” Unlike even the most socially conservative 
feminists, they never say, I don’t want sex workers to be raped. They say, I 
don’t want to see sex workers. Don’t want to see them on their front steps. 
Don’t want to see their clients or “pimps.” Don’t want to see condoms, or 
syringes. In short: don’t want to see poverty, don’t want to see poor people.

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