保护妇女合法权益是我党和政府的重点工作，也一直受到社会各界的广泛关注。2022年2月，“丰县生育八孩女子”事件引发了社会的广泛关注和讨论，收买者的恶劣行为挑战了公众的道德底线。自20世纪80年代起，我国逐步加强了对收买行为的法律制裁，《刑法修正案（九）》更是彻底废除了收买被拐卖妇女罪的免责条款。虽然法律实施以来取得显著成效，但是关于本罪的法定刑罚是否需要调整，以及本罪的具体法律条文应如何设计，仍然存在较大的争议。修法之争以“提高派”和“维持派”为代表，“提高派”认为应当提高该罪的法定刑才能做到罪责刑相适应，“维持派”则认为现有法定刑已能够实现罪责刑相适应，无需调整。笔者认为，在这一问题上，单靠经验判断法定刑罚的合理性显然是不够的，仅仅依靠立法修改也无法根本解决长期存在的司法问题。必须通过更为深入的研究和调查，全面了解司法实践中的量刑情况，探究问题的根源，才能找到真正有效的解决方案，从而确保法律的制定和实施更加符合社会正义，更有效地保护妇女权益，并实现法律公正的最终目标。

本文从收买被拐卖的妇女罪的法定刑变迁及学界争议出发，采用文献研究法、实证研究法和比较分析法，通过量化分析2018-2023年间收买被拐卖妇女罪的司法案例，并结合有代表意义的案例对本罪的刑罚适用、量刑情节适用以及量刑情节对刑期的影响情况进行评估和分析，发现本罪在司法实践中存在量刑轻缓化、量刑不均衡和量刑情节任意适用三大问题，这些问题的存在削弱了法律的威慑力和公正性。在进一步分析量刑问题的成因后，本文提出了具体的改进建议。首先，应当在理念上坚持对买卖行为的并重对待，以确保量刑的均衡性和公正性。其次，在立法层面，要完善法定刑配置、限制缓刑适用以及细化量刑情节适用规则，实现罪责刑相适应，更好地指导司法。最后，在司法层面，建议加强对收买行为后续可能引发的其他犯罪的打击力度，同时重视量刑过程中的释法说理，并充分发挥检察机关在量刑建议中的作用，确保司法决策的透明度和公正性，以更有效地保护被拐卖妇女的人身权利。

Protecting the legal rights of women has been a priority for the Chinese government and has received widespread attention from all sectors of society. The incident in February 2022 involving a trafficked woman from Feng County who gave birth to eight children has elicited extensive public attention and discussion. The appalling actions of the purchasers have challenged the moral baseline of the public. Since the 1980s, China has gradually strengthened legal sanctions against the buying of trafficked women, culminating in the abolition of the exemption clause for the crime of purchasing trafficked women in the "Ninth Amendment to the Criminal Law". While the implementation of these laws has been effective, there remains substantial controversy over whether the statutory penalties for this crime need adjustment and how the specific legal provisions should be designed. The debate over amending the law is dominated by those who advocate for higher penalties and those who believe the existing statutory penalties are sufficient. The author argues that reliance solely on empirical judgment to assess the appropriateness of statutory penalties is insufficient and that legislative amendments alone cannot resolve longstanding judicial issues. Comprehensive research and investigation into judicial practices are essential to understand the sentencing patterns fully, explore the root causes of issues, and find genuinely effective solutions. This ensures that laws are crafted and implemented in line with social justice, effectively protect women's rights, and achieve the ultimate goal of legal fairness.

This paper starts from the changes and academic disputes over the statutory penalties for the crime of purchasing trafficked women, using methods of documentary research, empirical research, and comparative analysis. By quantitatively analyzing judicial cases related to this crime from 2018 to 2023 and examining representative cases regarding the application of penalties and sentencing circumstances, it identifies three main issues in judicial practice: leniency in sentencing, uneven sentencing, and arbitrary application of sentencing circumstances. These issues undermine the deterrent effect and fairness of the law. After further analyzing the causes of sentencing problems, the paper proposes specific recommendations for improvement. Firstly, it advocates for equal treatment of buying and selling actions to ensure balanced and fair sentencing. Secondly, at the legislative level, it suggests improving the configuration of statutory penalties, restricting conditions for probation, and refining rules for the application of sentencing circumstances, so as to realize the appropriateness of crime and responsibility and better guide the administration of justice. Lastly, at the judicial level, it is recommended to strengthen the fight against other crimes that may be triggered subsequently by the act of buying, and at the same time to emphasize the interpretation of the law and reasoning in the process of sentencing, as well as to give full play to the role of the procuratorial organs in the recommendation of the sentencing, so as to ensure the transparency and fairness of the judicial decision-making, in order to protect the personal rights of the abducted and trafficked women in a more effective way.