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“War on Women” Increasingly Focused on Women of Color and Immigrant Women

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Written by Natalie Camastra for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.

VAWA. PRENDA. Aderholt.

What do all these words (and acronyms) have in common?

They represent the three latest attacks on women’s health, safety, and reproductive justice. However, the War on Women has been raging continuously in the 112th Congress. So what else connects these three? They represent the escalating attacks on the health and rights of women of color, and immigrant women in particular — their right to reproductive health care, their access to protections from intimate partner violence and other crimes, and their right to bodily autonomy.

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Tagged: immigrant women, immigration, women of color, Anderholt Amendment, PRENDA, HR 3541, VAWA, violence against women act, domestic abuse, War on Women, .
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