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Women Veterans Need Your Help
The Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2008
The fastest growing group of people serving in America's military is women. More than 155,000 women have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. Veterans Administration officials estimate that the number of female veterans who use VA services will double in the next five years. Our women veterans face unique physical and mental health care needs, especially in regards to Military Sexual Trauma.
Urge your Senator to improve the health care for our women veterans.
About one in every three female veterans who sought health care from the VA said they experienced rape or attempted rape during their service. Of that group, 37 percent reported they were raped multiple times and 14 percent said they were gang-raped. One study concluded that sexual assault is 3 to 10 times more prevalent for women serving in the armed forces than for women in the general population. The Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2008 (S.2799), a bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate last month, will dramatically increase the care available to our women veterans, including authorizing programs to improve care for Military Sexual Trauma. The bill will also increase research on the current barriers to care and expand staff positions for women at the VA.
Give women veterans the access to the care they need! Please do your part to change the VA system to meet women veterans' needs.
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Contributor's Note
A Woman Veteran added a comment on the petition site:
As a Woman Veteran of Vietnam & a former Vet Center Therapist I have seen first hand the needs of women veterans in health care and the current health care is NOT sufficient either physically or mentally Please, please help us get better care after all when we raised our hands and were sworn into the military you promised health care for life.
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