For those inclined to disregard recent allegations of the "fake" nature of the alleged war on women conducted by one of our nation's major political parties, it's worth noting that the whole story is not solely about contraception or about whether women choosing to be fulltime moms are "working" or not. The story is about the same party's current effort to preclude a reauthorization of The Violence Against Women Act, passed initially in 1994 as part of an Omnibus Crime Bill that Republicans opposed because they "owned" the crime issue and couldn't conceivably concede this ownership to Bill Clinton. And the story entails state efforts, successful in the case of Wisconsin, to repeal the Lilly Ledbetter Act, the first piece of legislation to be signed by Barack Obama. That act made it legal for women not being paid as much as men for the same work to use the courts to sue their employers. And if such policy issues are too abstract to have much persuasive impact, I'd advise the skeptics to read the following story and pass it along to those who consider allegations of gender-based political discrimination a bunch of malarky.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8168-murder-of-a-nobody
To mainstream media, the death of this lady at the hands of her husband, was back-page/two-sentence news. And as only one of a thousand such stories a year in this country, perhaps the journalistic neglect is understandable. Or perhaps, for exactly the same reason, the journalistic neglect is indefensible.
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This is a case of 'Haves' vs 'Have-nots'. The basic American can do little to be seen in a national light. Anytime a drugged-up celebrity OD's there seems to be millions and millions who take to social media and more to morn for these individuals they never knew. But when a 'nobody' is killed because of a pressing issue it is overlooked by people and the media. This just shows the horrible values of most Americans and their inability to think for themselves.
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