A execute minatrix and two sex trade workers are in a Toronto courtroom this morning arguing that Canada's prostitution laws are unconstitutional. Specifically, the women notify provisions of the Criminal Code that create it illegal to race a bawdy hoemploy , illegal to live on the avails of prostitution and to communicate for the purpose of prostitution deprive sex trade workers of their correct to security by prohibiting conditions that would create the work safer. They also argue that the laws deprive them of their correct to liberty by finish enrage ing them with imprisonment.
The applicants are Terri-Jean Bedford, a former sex trade worker who is now a execute minatrix, Valerie Scott, a sex trade worker who advocates for the correct s of sex workers and Amy Lebovitch, a prostitute since 1997.
The portion ies responding and intervening in the application are the attorney general of Canada, of Ontario, and groups like the Catholic Civil Rights League and REAL Women of Canada.
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