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Faith-based adoption agencies can reject LGBT families under new rule proposed by Trump administration
This is “extremist policy-makers” using religion to justify hurtful and hateful policies says National Organization for Women President, Toni Van Pelt. “The HHS rule has nothing to do with religious freedom and everything to do with intolerance and right-wing politics.”
D.C. could be the first U.S. city to decriminalize sex work.
NOW advocates for full services for sex workers, such as mental and physical health care, to help women leave.
Witnesses clash at marathon D.C. Council hearing on bill to decriminalize sex work
But despite Grosso’s assertion, nearly all witnesses opposing the bill, including Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, argued that its provision decriminalizing the act of buying sex by “Johns” would lead to an enormous increase in sex trafficking targeting both children and adults.
PRO: Workplace discrimination holds women back
This isn’t a wage gap. It’s wage theft. And it’s not only stealing money from women, it’s stealing their future.