The GOP’s Health-Care Bill Is Absurdly Cruel to Sexual Assault Victims
Not everyone can bring themselves to report a rape. But those who do will be punished by Senate Republicans, who are trying to ram through their gruesome AHCA bill.
Carey Purcell
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Carey Purcell is a New York–based writer, reporter, and theater critic. She has been published in The New Yorker, The Nation, PEOPLE, Playbill, American Theatre magazine, Elle, Bust, Alternet, Jezebel, and Howlround.com.
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