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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.).........

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming
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To: Sub-Driver
Dems: Climate change may lead poor women to sex work

Oh God, not MORE politicians! Oh wait, different type whore.....

41 posted on 04/29/2013 5:58:28 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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42 posted on 04/29/2013 6:02:19 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: married21

How about stop blasting the men and the children to bits with hellfire missiles launched by drones from up in the sky?

Maybe some poor husbands might actually then still be alive.

Maybe stop flying your jets to travel from place to place or travel, where guys like Obama and co. have to take a long motorcade of gas-guzzling cars along with them, and release more CO2 than an army of ordinary people?

Some citizens might actually be able to use gas to get themselves to work.

How about not taking one third of the special presidential vacations, and stop making excuses about how hard you work?

The nation might night be down the drain in debt.


43 posted on 04/29/2013 6:06:45 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Sub-Driver

That should please Bob Menendez.


44 posted on 04/29/2013 7:57:08 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (And winter is coming.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What ever it takes to support solar panels, windmills and ethanol biofuels.


45 posted on 04/30/2013 2:00:51 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Wanderer99

I don’t know how anyone stays in business doing satire when you constantly have to deal with real self satire of the sort illustrated here.


46 posted on 04/30/2013 2:22:44 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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