Starting in 1990. we put together different bills that all of us had dealing with different issues on womens health and we put them in one bill called the Womens Health Equity Act. Then we all cosponsored it together and pushed as much of it as we could. This year there are 36 bills in there. and it deals with an awful lot of the things still on the table that we have not dealt with. everything from eating disorders. which affect women much more severely than men. all the way through to female genital mutilation. which this body has still refused to deal with. even though our European countries and other countries have. and there are all sorts of international bodies crying out. saying this is a human rights violation and that we should make it a felony for people to move to this country as immigrants and bring those cultural things with them. I do not want to see female genital mutilation in this country and I hope every American agrees. and I cannot understand why this body will not move on it. But to still think we have got 36 bills of that wide a range that we have reintroduced. that are out there. that we are still going to keep trying to move before we are anywhere close to having parity with where men have been in all the health care issues.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that immigrants bring harmful cultural practices with them.