The other day so channel on TV was running a documentary (or maybe it was on radio) about the number of children abducted throughout the world and put in to a sex slave trade. A few days ago, California law enforcement made a tiny chip in the iceberg of sex slaves. Ron Jones, reporting from Sacramento wrote: "Michelle, a 26-year-old homeless woman who lives in downtown Sacramento, said she was the victim of sex trafficking by her own parents when she and her sister were just three years old.
"My mom and dad sold me and sexually molested and exploited us," Michelle said. "They sold me and my twin sister to support their own habit."
It is estimated that more than 12 million people as of a year ago were victims of forced prostitution and labor across the world. The buying and selling of humans is a $32 billion global business, according to the U.S. State Department's 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report. There is no reason to think that number is less today despite the attempts of law enforcement trying to eliminate this problem. To read more on this, click here. Isn't it amazing that with all the problems humanity, especially young women and even children, must face, we have politicians who don't even know there are people out of work and desperate and who have no health care when they need it.. This does not make for happy campers.
However, poverty has its own toll as we see from this article about Mexico's children.James Cheng writes and shows photographs Estimates range up to 1 in 50 children are homeless in the United States. Yet we are locked in debates about 'pro-life' forcing unwanted children to be born. Should there not be a campaign launched to show these 'do-gooders' ,who want less government intrusion into their lives, to stay out of women's wombs? Those who object to abortion do nothing significant to save the children after they are born...at least we hear nothing about it on the media, do we?
Wake up people/voters, stop being brainwashed and order your priorities.
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