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Over the weekend, reports began to circulate that Vice PresidentMike Pence has been meeting with numerous wealthy donors. Pence and his wife have reportedly met withChicago hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, brokerage firm founder Charles Schwab, and other Republican fund-raisers from Dow Chemical and the military contractor United Technologies. This follows follows news from last month that Pence had formally established his own political action committee.

Does any of this definitively prove that Mike Pence is going to run for president come 2020? No, not necessarily but the fact that Pence appears to be preparing for even the remote possibility of a potential presidential run should terrify American women nonetheless. If you think what were getting from alleged sexual abuser Donald Trump attacks on Planned Parenthood, sexist remarks to female reporters and politicians, the works is annoying and dangerous, just take a moment to imagine what Pence has in store.

We all know the man is a raging sexist. His refusal to dine alone with women who arent his wife (because, you know, all women are inherently conniving temptresses) should have made that plenty clear.

But when men like Mike Pence are given political power to spew out horrifying anti-woman policies, thats when casual sexism crosses the line from irritating to dangerous.

Not even touching yet on Pences terrifying and draconian take on reproductive rights, theres his awful record on equal pay. In a 1997 op-ed entitled, Day-care kids, Pence blamed working mothers for stunting their childrens emotional development, and opted to shame and blame them rather that suggest real and compassionate solutions like paid family leave. Predictably enough, while in Congress, Pence voted not once but three times against legislation to promote equal pay.

To Pence, women belong at home and in the kitchen, and in addition to his opposition to equal pay, his record on abortion rights and Planned Parenthood also makes this abundantly clear. After all, what other options do women have without affordable access to birth control and abortion?

As Governor of Indiana, Pence led a crusade against abortion rights, widely reported on by Mother Jones last year, signing off on legislation that would require women to pay costly, out-of-pocket fees for the burial or cremation of aborted fetuses, as well as a law that would hold doctors liable for wrongful death if they performed an abortionecause of the race, gender, or disability of the fetus. The very pro-life Pence has also transferred funding meant for low-income families to Christian crisis pregnancy centers that operate solely to lie to and emotionally manipulate vulnerable pregnant women.

And to top it all off, by 2014, under Gov. Pence,state funding for Planned Parenthood in Indiana had been cut nearly in half from 2005 levels, unsurprisingly yielding HIV outbreaks and slashing low-income womens access to crucial health care services. The Pence-led war on Planned Parenthood was likely a response to the fact that some clinics, without federal funding, offer abortion services; ironically, by denying thousands of women access to birth control and sexual education, Pence very well could have contributed to higher abortion rates.

Pences reign of terror over Indian allows voters a glimpse of what he would do as president. And for American women, its less a glimpse than it is an utter nightmare.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder, is being treated at Londons Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Charlies parents have raised 1.3 million ($1.7 million) to take their son to the U.S. for potentially life-saving treatment, but hospital administrators have fought Chris Gard and Connie Yates for months through several courts to have Charlies life support removed.

We hope and pray that little Charlie Gard gets every chance, said Mr. Pence on the radio programme, adding he prayedfor the family to be allowed to choose the greatest extent of life-saving treatment thats available to their child.

Otherwise, the vice president feared, the infant will be submitted to a government programme that says, no, were going to remove life support from your precious 11-month-old child.

Mr. Pences comments come following support received by U.S. President Donald Trump, who tweetedlast week: If we can help little#CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.

Pope Francis also came out in support of Charlie being able to receive further treatment, withRomes Bambino Gesu hospital, a Vatican-run childrens hospital, offering to receive and treat Charlie an offer which was rejected by the British government for legal reasons.

On Monday afternoon, High Court Judge Mr. Justice Francis, who made the initial High Court ruling in April,said the case would be listed for a full day Thursday. The judge explained a final decision may not come until Friday, meaning more delays to Charlie receiving treatment.

Chief Executive of Americans United for Life, Catherine Glenn-Foster,who is close to the Gard family, said on Sunday: [Chris and Connie] are stressed as anyone would be in this situation, where their own parental rights are being stripped away by an institution that was hired to care for their son and instituted to care for the most vulnerable among us.

That very institution hired to care for Charlie is trying to strip him of his rights and his parents of their rights to even just take him to get a second opinion.

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Roger Stone, longtime friend and Republican strategist, also dodges the White House and reaches Trump through Graff, according to Politico. She passes requests to Madeleine Westerhout, Trump's personal assistant in the White House, whom Graff trained during the transition, according to Politico.

Graff anticipated that people would still try to reach Trump through her. Katie Walsh, who oversees Trump's schedule, requested that Graff forward the requests along, Politico reported. A White House spokesman told The New York Times that Graff sends messages to an official point of contact rather than directly to the president.

Trump has directed some people to contact Graff instead of the White House, two associates who have received such advice told Politico. She wields the most influence over his schedule at Mar-a-Lago, when Trump asks his staff to leave blocks of personal time free. He uses the time to meet with friends, some of whom tell Graff they will be at the club at the same time as Trump, according to Politico.

Graff, 64, grew up in Queens. She started at the Trump Organization nearly 30 years ago after running a sports marketing company, according to the Times. She was featured in a few episodes of Trump's reality show "The Apprentice."

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Our investigative team collaborated with the nonprofit news site ProPublica to analyze the appointees working on deregulation, using records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. We found 28 appointees with potential conflicts.

Separately, we learned that Trump aides asked businessmen who profited from military contracts to devise alternatives to the Pentagons plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan. The Defense Department is not considering their idea of using contractors instead of soldiers, an official said.

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3. Senate leaders said they would unveil a revised bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, then debate and vote on it next week.

But they still appear to be well short of the support needed to pass the legislation. The majority leader, Mitch McConnell, said he would delay the Senates August recess by two weeks.

We collected opinions from the right and left on the future of the health care bill. Above, a protest inside a Senate building.

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4. The military confirmed that 16 service members were killed on Monday when a Marine Corps transport plane plunged into a field in the Mississippi Delta.

Their names have not yet been released. The flight took off from an air station in North Carolina, and was headed to a naval facility in California for a training exercise.

Six of the those aboard were assigned to the Marine Raiders, an elite special operations force that deploys to Afghanistan and Iraq, among other countries.

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5. Our correspondent took a tour of Mosul a day after the Iraqi government declared victory over the Islamic State in the city.

What she found was rubble, death and devastation. In some parts of the city artillery fire could still be heard.

While this is a major moment for Iraq, she wrote, I doubt this fight is over.

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6. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is using shuttle diplomacy to try to end the standoff between four Arab nations and Qatar.

He signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatars foreign minister, outlining ways the country could fortify its fight against terrorism and address terrorism funding.

The dispute has pushed Qatar closer to Iran, which has stepped in with planeloads of fresh vegetables and other support.

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7. The International Olympic Committee will announce the host cities for the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics at the same time this September.

The mayors of Paris and Los Angeles, the front-runners, were in Switzerland today to make formal presentations, above. Voting by I.O.C. delegates will take place on Sept. 13 in Peru.

The Games are trying to generate excitement amid corruption and doping scandals and diminished interest from potential host nations leery of the high costs.

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8. Boston is seeing the most intense building frenzy in its 400-year history, and theres worry that glassy towers will bathe the citys prized parks in darkness.

The states strict laws to protect sunlight and open space are being tested by developers who are trying to change the shadow laws, saying preservation must be balanced with economic development.

The ultrarich will get great views, but there will be permanent damage to the peoples parks, one critic warned.

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9. People with disabilities tend to receive worse medical treatment and less routine care. Our writer has a proposal to change that: recruit more medical professionals who are themselves disabled.

Im a guy in a wheelchair sitting right next to my patients, said Dr. Gregory Snyder, above, who became paralyzed from an injury in medical school. They know Ive been in that bed just like they have. And I think that means something.

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10. Finally, its been a hot, dry spell at Wimbledon, where Novak Djokovic was among those criticizing match officials over court conditions and scheduling. He plays his quarterfinal match against Tomas Berdych on Wednesday.

And Venus Williams, above, advanced to the semifinals for the second year in a row by beating Jelena Ostapenko. Williams, 37, made her Wimbledon debut a few weeks after Ostapenko, 20, was born.

Have a great night.

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