Thanks to Chris Hedges for such a clear vision. It is Amnesty International that has attacked THE most marginalized group of people in the world: women, and especially women of colour and Indigenous women and poor women, whose choices are so constrained by their oppression and exploitation.

This, right here, is one of the best and most concise challenges to the Amnesty position I've seen (and I've seen a lot):
"Women's entry into, and experiences within, prostitution are inextricably linked to gendered poverty, discrimination, and the multiple disadvantages women face in society. The persistence of these economic and social inequalities mean that so-called ‘free’ or ‘consensual’ choices in prostitution are actually decisions made in conditions of already existing inequality and discrimination. Women’s Aid supports the decriminalisation of those who sell sex, and advocates that they should have access to safety, protection, healthcare and support, and routes to exit prostitution should they choose to do so." —Women's Aid UK
Amnesty assumes that women in the sex trade are all or mostly there because they like selling "sex" - in quotes because I like to think of sexual relations as mutual and that can hardly be the case when one person wants sex and the other person, a woman - or girl - needs money. The myth that has been sold, and sold well, by organizations of so-called "sex workers" funded and supported by pimps and traffickers, is that women are in positions to make free choices to consent to "sex" in a money-for-access commercial transaction. Most women engaged in the trade are in no position to "bargain" with men who are by definition more powerful than they are just by virtue of being men but also because they have disposable income. They are not the vaunted "free agents" that Amnesty, and many others, wants to believe they are. It is not infantilizing them to recognize the limits of their individual autonomy in a world that oppresses and exploits them. This is the most frustrating conversation I've ever had and makes feminists into the enemies of men on the left who are our natural allies. To say nothing of the women who, in the name of some kind of solidarity with women who call themselves "sex workers", have accepted and internalized the misogynist view that men need "sex" more than women and women live to fill that concocted need because they like that state of affairs.

How about protecting the human lives of doctors and medical personnel who are following the law of the land. And when you find that objective knowledge, do let me know. What the Catholic Church claims to know is so far from objective it ain't even funny. I don't believe in the Church or its doctrine. Keep its laws OFF my body and keep the lives of living, breathing, rights-bearing people safe. You are not pro-life Suzanne.

Well that's cool! Just don't put a sign outside the fence on the Manning Ave boulevard - it will just get taken down.

I'd like a lawn sign at 10 Bassett Blvd, Unit 63 - I have street property on Manning Ave as well, so could use two. I'm Elizabeth Pickett.

I'm not going to repeat all the arguments. But I must say, whatever respect I had for Bob Rae's intelligence has now completely evaporated.