Ash Regan MSP - The Unbuyable Bil...

Ash Regan MSP - The Unbuyable Bill: changing prostitution laws in Scotland

The Patterson Podcast by Ross Patterson

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Ash Regan is a Member of the Scottish Parliament, currently sitting as an independent having previously been a member of the SNP. Her Unbuyable Bill, which sought to criminalise the buying of sex while decriminalising the selling of it, reached Stage One of the Scottish Parliament before being voted down. We discussed why she feels prostitution laws in Scotland need to change.

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Timestamps

00:00 — Introduction

00:58 — What the Unbuyable Bill proposes

05:13 — The SNP votes the bill down at Stage One

08:52 — How current Scottish law on prostitution works

10:44 — What the bill would criminalise and decriminalise

15:02 — The Nordic model — how it works and the  ... 

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