(Canadian Press) Members of Quebec’s most prominent women’s group are divided over whether to acknowledge prostitution as a freely chosen career and whether to support all Muslim female public servants who choose to wear a hijab at work.
About 150 representatives from Quebec’s main feminist federation adopted a motion Sunday night recognizing that women can choose to become sex workers and can consent to sexual activity in exchange for money.
Prostitution abolitionists, who believe all sex work is necessarily exploitative, are now questioning whether to remain in the organization.
Gabrielle Bouchard, president of the Federation des femmes du Quebec, said on Monday the “large majority” of voters at the group’s general assembly supported the motion, “but some people were upset.”
