During the Supreme Court confirmation hearings late last month Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)  by all outward appearances, a “woman” asked another woman, soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice Katanji Jackson, if she could define the word “woman.”

According to an article posted in the British medical journal last year, 253 drugs have been fast tracked for for FDA approval since 1992 but nearly have have been shown to deliver minimal, if any, effect.

Women’s issues run the gamut, from sexual harassment and discrimination and equal pay in the workplace, to the quality of medical care women receive, and the toxic substances to which they are exposed through the use of common household products, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals often with deadly results.