To the Senate Judiciary Committee, The Woodhull Freedom Foundation strongly supports S810, which would decriminalize commercial sexual activity. The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is a national human rights organization focused on affirming sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. Since we…
On January 30, 2025, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the National Survivor Network (NSN), and Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) submitted a response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur (SR) on Violence Against Women and Girls’ call for input to inform an addendum…
February 25, 2025 Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Support A.1029 (Kelles) / S.3967 (Sepulveda) Dear Legislator: The Woodhull Freedom Foundation supports A.1029/S.3967, legislation to enable victims and witnesses to a crime to be able to seek help without fear of being…
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.
Want to hear an outright lie told often around this time of year? Here’s one: the Super Bowl is “the single largest human-trafficking incident in the United States.” This 100% false statement, lacking any evidence, was made in 2011 by…
December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. For over 20 years, memorials and vigils have been held on this day to honor the sex workers lost to physical and systemic violence. While this day initially…
Texas’s new bill H.B. 991, known as the Women and Child Safety Act, has little to do with protecting women or children. Rather, under the guise of concern for people’s wellbeing, H.B. 911 attacks Texans’ most fundamental human rights to…
Surprise, surprise. Yet again, conservatives are attacking mifepristone. But this time, they’re floating a new, outrageous legal theory against medication abortion. The theory? Attorneys general from Kansas, Missouri, and Idaho posit that the decreased births from abortion pills cause potential…
