'Sex workers, like all workers, deserve autonomy but they are particularly vulnerable to physical and financial abuse and hardship,' the senator said.
Warren, who represents Massachusetts, is among some 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls, and she now joins a handful of them in the decriminalization of prostitution and other sex work.
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses the Moral Action Congress of the Poor People's Campaign June 17, 2019 at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. The Campaign held the event to focus on issues like “voting rights, health care, housing, equitable education, indigenous sovereignty, living wage jobs and the right to join a union, clean air and water, and an end to gun proliferation and war mongering and other issues in our moral agenda.”Sen.
"But when you're talking about consenting adults? Yes, we should really consider that we can't criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed. I was advocating [15 years ago] that we have to stop arresting these prostitutes and start going after the johns and the pimps, because we were criminalizing the women."
2020 Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard and Mike Gravel agreed with Warren and Harris,
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