Women and Children Are Political Pawns In the Zika Funding Battle

Since the outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil in November 2015, over 8,000 babies have been born with confirmed microcephaly. The rapid spread of the disease has left millions of women and families living in fear and uncertainty as Latin-American public-health officials have scrambled to coordinate an emergency response.

In the United States, by contrast, the crisis is unfolding in slow motion. As mosquito season has slowly approached, Congress has had seven months to take decisive action.