By Ashley McGuire No. That’s about all there is to say in response to the official Women’s March Twitter page, which decried the federal government’s move to seize and shut down Backpage.com, a multibillion-dollar internet human trafficking platform. Except that there is so much more…
By Grazie Pozo Christie With the passage by the Senate of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), Congress has come down decisively on the side of exploited women and children, and against website owners who intentionally support the sale of…
By Maureen Ferguson She looks like the teenage girl next door. She plays soccer and the violin, and wants to be a doctor when she grows up. After a fight with her parents over grades, in a foolish moment she runs away, meets a seedy…
By Nicholas Kristof for The New York Times Sex traffickers in America have the police and prosecutors pursuing them, but they do have one crucial (if secret) ally: Google. Google’s motto has long been “Don’t be evil,” and I admire lots about the company. But…
By Rob Portman and Richard Blumenthal Portman and Blumenthal are, respectively, Senators for Ohio and Connecticut in the U.S. Congress. Online classifieds are a familiar part of the 21st-century marketplace. People buy and sell cars and couches on public websites every day. They…
By Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie It has been well over a century that slavery has been outlawed in the United States, but the evil institution still thrives worldwide. UNICEF estimates that over 45 million people are pawns in the multibillion-dollar transnational industry of modern day slavery. The sheer…
By Ashley McGuire I have spent today’s “Day Without A Woman” barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, baking cookies for my breadwinner husband and my two children. That may sound like a joke, but it’s not. That’s just my way of protesting a movement that…
By Ashley McGuire If you want to understand why just one-in-five Americans self-identify as a feminist, look no further than today’s “Day Without A Woman” event. The organizers already told about half of America’s women to get lost when they explicitly stated the preceding January’s Women’s March’s “platform is…
It’s no secret that the Democratic Party is beholden to Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby. But the recent efforts of some Democratic legislators to block a bill that would provide financial restitution to victims of human trafficking over abortion funding has ushered in an…
Sen. Bill Nelson has come out strong against a sex-trafficking bill that would create a fund for victims with monies collected in fees from the traffickers. He has voted to filibuster this popular bill, because it includes a standard Hyde Amendment, banning federal funding of…
