Honor killings are certainly horrific. Yet other forms of violence against women are far more prevalent than honor killings. Domestic violence has been called the hidden epidemic.

If the president and the Republican legislators and some of the commenters who are so in favor of this new reporting requirement truly cared about the well-being of women, then they would push for more funding for the prevention of domestic violence and for assistance to victims and survivors.

This reporting requirement is ludicrous, because no one is trying to under-report the incidence of honor killings or to downplay its horror. The incidence of domestic violence against women by native-born Americans is regularly downplayed.