What We Missed

Mexico City just became the first in Latin America to approve same-sex marriage.
More responses to the abortion compromise in the Senate bill, from RH Reality Check and Cynthia Nixon.
Jill from Feministe gives her thoughts on the health care reform bill–and argues we can’t afford to kill it.
In the spending bill that Obama signed into law last week was also a provision “prohibiting defense contractors from restricting their employees’ abilities to take workplace discrimination, battery, and sexual assault cases to court. The measure was inspired by Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang-raped by her co-workers while working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad.” Via Think Progress
A new order from the head general in Iraq makes getting pregnant or impregnating a soldier while on duty an offense punishable by court martial. He says those pregnant via sexual assault will not be punished but questions remain about the ethics of such a policy.

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