Urge your senators Oppose Anti-Birth Control Amendment
Sen. Roy Blunt plans to offer an amendment to an upcoming transportation bill that
would allow any insurer or employer to refuse to cover birth control and any other health care service
he or she deems objectionable.
impact of this far-reaching amendment on health care would be catastrophic, and its impact on the religious liberty rights of individuals would be grave.
It is critical that advocates like you Urge your senators to oppose this dangerous amendment that undermines health care and religious liberty
Stand Up for Survivors of Violence
One in four US women has been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner, and nearly one in five has been raped in her lifetime.
These statistics are a somber reminder that our nation must do more to protect our mothers and daughters, sisters and friends from the devastating effects of domestic and sexual violence.
It is critical that advocates like you speak out now to ensure that your senators sign on as cosponsors and support a bill that would renew the Violence Against Women Act and make some much-needed improvements to its life-saving programs MORE…
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NCJW GHS Founds "Human Traffick Stop" Provisional Supply Bank
Founded in 2011, The Provisional Supply Bank provides non-perishable food items, baby products, household products, blankets, and warm-up suits for victims and their families rescued from human trafficking. "The Human Traffick Stop Provisional Supply Bank" is housed at the International Services' Trafficked Persons' Assistance Program (TPAP).
The Human Traffick Stop is one of 20 different Community Services Projects NCJW GHS supports.
Protecting the Powerless: Child Trafficking in the United States by : Molly M. Ginty
All that Kaela* wanted was the security she'd never had. "When I was 12 and living at home, my father was an alcoholic who verbally and physically abused me," says Kaela, a 16-year-old from Toledo, Ohio.
"One day I was out avoiding the house when an older man approached me on the street. He drove a beautiful car, had business cards, and said he had so much money he could give me anything I wanted. I’d never had nice things — or had an adult treat me that well — so after we talked for a while, I got in his car and drove off with him."
"Thus began Kaela's four years as a child prostitute. The man, a pimp More...
Feds Break Up Sex Slave Ring in Houston by: Sally MacDonald, Reporter
HOUSTON - A modern day international sex slavery ring has been broken up right under our noses. Since 1999, federal investigators say young Mexican women and girls have been smuggled into an east Houston compound, then forced to work as prostitutes.
Horrible acts are mentioned in the More…
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