Joe Pitts: “imagine a woman filled with hope accepting a new job in a big city. Promises of freedom from manual labor and better…”

“imagine a woman filled with hope accepting a new job in a big city. Promises of freedom from manual labor and better income have lured her away from her family. When she meets her new boss, she is crushed. She is given tight clothes to wear, condoms for her customers, she is beaten, raped, locked in a trailer and forced to have sex with whoever walks in the trailer. Unfortunately, this happens every day in some parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and, yes, even the United States. Many of us were surprised to learn that the administration's Interagency Council on Women has apparently been supporting a move to alter the U.N. Convention on Transnational Organized Crime to accept so-called ``voluntary'' prostitution. They want to adopt what is called the Netherland's definition of prostitution, which excludes anything that cannot be proven to be coerced. Mr. Speaker, this would make it virtually impossible to prosecute sex traffickers in nations adopting this protocol. We should oppose the forced Europeanization of America by United Nations' bureaucrats using the failed social policies of the Netherlands. I hope it is not true, and I hope this will be stopped.”