The NRA and other gun groups have the country tied in knots and it all has to be unwound.
But, the Republicans are ideologues that cater to cronies to score political points. That Republican dynamic goes on in most dysfunctions of the USA, but, especially in women's health.
Currently on the Senate floor is the "Trafficking of Women Act." The ideological Republicans have once again introduced an amendment limiting the help VICTIMS of this crime will receive.
March 12, 2015
Senate business (click here) slowed to a crawl this week when Republicans inserted anti-choice language into a popular human trafficking bill that Democrats are now blocking until the language is removed.
But abortion isn’t the only human rights issue Republicans are fighting a proxy war over, using the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act debate. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is pushing a radical amendment to the bill that would end the practice of granting automatic citizenship to all children born in the United States....
Victims of human trafficking don't have choices. They are rescued and had no moral say over their involvement. That involvement is the fault of law enforcement unable to end the abduction of these young people sometimes as young as 12 years old. As a result these young girls are going to face a full term pregnancy after they are rescued.
The USA has debated the issue of young children becoming pregnant that endangers their lives as well because they haven't completed their adult physical growth. There is no doubt a Hyde Amendment would cause a great deal of problems for this population of female victims.
But, the Republicans are ideologues that cater to cronies to score political points. That Republican dynamic goes on in most dysfunctions of the USA, but, especially in women's health.
Currently on the Senate floor is the "Trafficking of Women Act." The ideological Republicans have once again introduced an amendment limiting the help VICTIMS of this crime will receive.
March 12, 2015
Senate business (click here) slowed to a crawl this week when Republicans inserted anti-choice language into a popular human trafficking bill that Democrats are now blocking until the language is removed.
But abortion isn’t the only human rights issue Republicans are fighting a proxy war over, using the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act debate. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is pushing a radical amendment to the bill that would end the practice of granting automatic citizenship to all children born in the United States....
Victims of human trafficking don't have choices. They are rescued and had no moral say over their involvement. That involvement is the fault of law enforcement unable to end the abduction of these young people sometimes as young as 12 years old. As a result these young girls are going to face a full term pregnancy after they are rescued.
The USA has debated the issue of young children becoming pregnant that endangers their lives as well because they haven't completed their adult physical growth. There is no doubt a Hyde Amendment would cause a great deal of problems for this population of female victims.
