Arrest Rate for Rape Unchanged since late 1970′s – this is an Unfinished Revolution

Unfinished Revolution

The U.S. has struggled to make progress in the way the criminal-justice system addresses violence against women and girls. Only in the last 40 years have laws and systems been put in place to prohibit a victim’s prior sexual activity from being entered into evidence, to eliminate the requirement that there be a corroborating witness to a rape, and to create procedures to collect physical evidence from victims.

House G.O.P Caves on Birth Control War

Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times  Representative Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan, said on Feb. 8 that he would move quickly on legislation to overturn the contraception rule.

House Republicans, unsure how to proceed, have slowed their efforts to overturn a federal rule requiring employers, including religious institutions, to provide female employees with free health insurance coverage for contraceptives.