Why we need anti-prostitution laws

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Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has struck down key provisions of the country's prostitution laws as unconstitutional and suggests the federal government "fashion corrective action."

The Ontario government is considering an appeal, but the question isn't even worth debating. Do it. Women caught up in trafficking and slave-like conditions need every law they can get.

When Canada's abortion laws were struck down in 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada urged Ottawa to come up with legislation that was constitutional-challenge proof. The government was unable to and then gave up trying. This decision could have the same impact on women that the abortion decision had on the unborn. Appeal and if necessary redraft the legislation.