San Francisco Ballot Pamphlet 2008:
Argument in Support of Proposition K

Save women’s lives, stop enforcement of damaging prostitution laws.

Most sex workers are mothers and/or young people working to support ourselves and our families. Criminalization pushes women underground into more isolated areas away from the protection of the community. Putting women in jail for what is essentially consenting sex between adults destroys lives. The money currently spent on prosecuting sex workers should go into supporting women and children and prosecuting rapists and murderers. New Zealand successfully decriminalized prostitution five years ago and found:

• No rise in numbers of women working

• Women able to report violence without fear of arrest.

Let San Francisco be next! Save women’s lives, stop enforcement of damaging prostitution laws.

US PROStitutes Collective