In today’s rundown: The controversy over redefining rape. | Increasing the number of contracts for women-owned businesses in Fairfax County. |A Supreme Court Justice talks about her experience on the high court.
— The Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart gives a quick overview of the Not Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3) and the controversy surrounding efforts to “redefine rape.” And Sady Doyle has a more thorough look at the language in H.R. 3 and its historical significance on Salon.com.
— A new initiative in Fairfax County aims to increase the number of women-owned businesses in federal contracting. The county is setting aside certain contracts for women-owned businesses in the hopes that five percent of contracts will go to them, reports WAMU.
— In an appearance at the University of Chicago Law School Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke candidly about being a woman of color on the Supreme Court. In addition to taking questions and giving advice to students, “she said that she disagreed with Chief Justice John Roberts’s approach to cases concerning racial equality,” reports The New York Times.
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