The Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act was supposed to be a non-controversial bill that used money from fines against human traffickers to compensate victims and help them get a fresh start. While women and girls are not the only victims of human trafficking, they are particularly vulnerable in sex trafficking, and you would think that reproductive freedom was one of the very basic rights they would need to reclaim.
But Republicans slipped a change into the bill: no funds from it could be used for abortion. Because nothing says "freedom" like forcing a former slave to have her rapist's baby. It's now unclear if the bill will pass at all.
The good, the bad and the ugly below the orange amendment.