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The 47% Mitt Romney doesn’t care about is likely to be made up of women. 

Politicians want the married-mom vote. But so far they’re offering us very little in the way of a detailed agenda.

Remember the Women Institute, which has been at the forefront of efforts to raise awareness about sexual violence against women during the Holocaust, believes it’s significant that Obama chose this week at the Holocaust Museum to make his statement about “the horror of wartime sexual violence.”

Even today, some scholars don’t want to acknowledge that various forms of sexual violence occurred during the Holocaust. The shame that sexually violated women feel for their entire lives has silenced many survivors, and the Nazis and their collaborators permanently silenced other victims by murdering them immediately after violating them.

http://womensenews.org/story/rape/120426/obama-addresses-sex-violence-at-holocaust-museum