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Dems: Climate change may lead poor women to sex work
philly.com ^

Posted on 04/29/2013 2:34:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Dems: Climate change may lead poor women to sex work Sam Wood, PHILLY.COM Posted: Monday, April 29, 2013, 4:16 PM

Climate change will lead poor women to opt for "sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage" warns a resolution proposed last week in Congress.

Introduced by a group of Democrats, the resolution calls on both the House and Senate to recognize how women will be disproportionately affected by global warming.

Women are "the first to feel the immediate and adverse effects of social environmental and economic stress on their families and communities," the document states, adding that 60 to 80 percent of farmers in developing countries are women.

It points to a United Nations report that estimates 3 billion more people might spiral into extreme poverty if governments don't take coordinated action.

Women, it says, will also feel the brunt of a harsher climate if it brings on increased migration, refugee crises and conflicts over food and water.

If a food crisis emerges, it says women may be drawn to sex work that would put them at risk for HIV, sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy.

The resolution - H. Con. Res. 36 introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.).........

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


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To: Sub-Driver

Well, that opens up several possibilities for me...


21 posted on 04/29/2013 2:57:46 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Gay State Conservative
That's just....just....

just wrong
22 posted on 04/29/2013 2:57:56 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (My world view is accurately expressed in the lyrics of " The Fightin' Side of Me")
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To: Bon mots
So they think that’s all women can do to survive?

In many if not most human societies down through history, they would have been more or less correct.

Women had very limited ways of making a living, and a great many were indeed forced into prostitution by the other option being starvation.

Under the Taliban, for instance, and in other rigidly traditional Muslim societies, prostitution is pretty much the only option for a widow or orphan.

23 posted on 04/29/2013 2:59:07 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sub-Driver

Obamacare and the other disastrous democrat rat policies that are wrecking the economy will lead to people going into prostitution.


24 posted on 04/29/2013 2:59:57 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (bahits.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

What? The never ending lunacy of the left...


25 posted on 04/29/2013 3:00:10 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory- Thomas Jefferson)
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>> Dems: Climate change may lead poor women to sex work

Heck, I always figured the compelling force was the pancake on the bunny’s head.


26 posted on 04/29/2013 3:01:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

Ouch. Let me try to help a little:

http://www.cutekorean.net/2013/04/cheon-bo-young-outdoor.html


27 posted on 04/29/2013 3:06:52 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: Sub-Driver
LOL. The real question is whether the Philly Inquirer was serious when it posted this article — that is, they buy into the idea that “climate change” is going to force women into prostitution — or whether they were posting it to point out how silly the claim is.
28 posted on 04/29/2013 3:07:28 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo
That's just....just....just wrong

I know you're excited but don't worry...I won't tell your wife if you don't. ;-)

29 posted on 04/29/2013 3:12:38 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: Windcatcher
Ahhh.
Thanks. Much better.
30 posted on 04/29/2013 3:17:10 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (My world view is accurately expressed in the lyrics of " The Fightin' Side of Me")
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To: Sub-Driver

Climate Change will cause baldness, too, and cause condoms to fail.


31 posted on 04/29/2013 3:18:20 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

Take two and call me in the morning :^)


32 posted on 04/29/2013 3:19:34 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is another article that blurs the line between satire and “news”.

Does anyone takes these morons seriously?


33 posted on 04/29/2013 3:20:41 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now I am waiting to hear which group of republicans will sign on to the bill to save the women from GoreBull warming


34 posted on 04/29/2013 3:21:47 PM PDT by stockpirate (COME AND GET THEM.....)
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To: Sub-Driver
Early Marriage?


35 posted on 04/29/2013 3:25:16 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Windcatcher
If I took two of those the only person I'd be calling in the morning would be my lawyer.
Well, maybe a good chiropractor if I'm lucky.. : )
36 posted on 04/29/2013 3:26:53 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (My world view is accurately expressed in the lyrics of " The Fightin' Side of Me")
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To: Sub-Driver

http://theolympiareport.com/wwu-scientist-debunks-lawmakers-myths-about-co2-climate-change/


37 posted on 04/29/2013 3:38:52 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

“What? The never ending lunacy of the left...”

Looks like Barbara Lee is Hank (Guam is Capsizing) Johnson’s “sister.” This is our Black Babs (from Berzerkley) as opposed to the Capo Jew (aka Babs “Call Me Senator” Brooklyn Transplant) over in Marin County. Thank the Lord there are hills between where we live and Berzerkley. The effluent has to “leak over” to reach us. FYI Barbara Lee came to California from El Paso, TX, so she’s another “transplant.” California was a nice place. We should not have let this trash in in the first place. But just think you CA bashers, this woman’s children may have the idea of moving to where you live.


38 posted on 04/29/2013 4:04:01 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Sub-Driver

Give it up, Democrats, the Earth is going to cool. Democratic politicians should find honest work.


39 posted on 04/29/2013 4:23:12 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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40 posted on 04/29/2013 5:23:38 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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