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In this picture taken on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, members of the Tap Tap orchestra rehearse at their studio in Prague, Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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FILE - In this July 31, 2014 file photo, gay rights campaigners act out electric shock treatment to protest outside a court when the first court case in China involving so-called conversion therapy is held in Beijing, China. A gay man in central China has successfully sued a mental hospital over forced conversion therapy on June 26, 2017, in what activists are hailing as the first such victory in the country where the LGBT rights movement is gradually emerging form the fringes. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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In this June. 8, 2017 photo, podiatrist Serafin Barca poses for a photo with a patient in his clinic in Havana, Cuba. The 80-year-old podiatrist is one of the last private medical workers in communist Cuba, which prides itself on its free, universal state health care. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Suffragettes march for equal rights during a demonstration in Washington, D.C., in 1917. (AP Photo)
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Dreamers, who just weeks ago cheered the administration's announcement that it was maintaining DACA, were furious at the latest turn of events and called Texas' move racist. (Associated Press/File)
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Illustration on the "right" to health care and involuntary servitude by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE -- In this May 3, 2017 file photo, California Attorney Gen. Xavier Becerra speaks in Sacramento, Calif. California's attorney general says the number of hate crimes increased about 11 percent last year, the second consecutive double-digit increase after years of decline. The report released Monday, July 3, 2017 shows 931 hate crimes statewide in 2016, nearly 100 more than in 2015. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, Tom Garing cleans up racist graffiti painted on the side of a mosque in what officials are calling an apparent hate crime in Roseville, Calif. California's attorney general says the number of hate crimes increased about 11 percent last year, the second consecutive double-digit increase after years of decline. The report released Monday, July 3, 2017, shows 931 hate crimes statewide in 2016, nearly 100 more than in 2015. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this May 21, 2017, file photo, cars are parked outside a Community Health Nursing clinic in Tonopah, Nev. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval plans to begin requiring state agency administrators to voluntarily disclose all federal reviews after he and his staff were surprised to first learn in a report by The Associated Press of a critical assessment of the state's rural public health clinics. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found misused grant funds, sloppy record-keeping and undertrained staff at state-run reproductive health clinics in 2015.(AP Photo/Alison Noon,File)
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Doctors, nurses, health care workers and patients who will lose access to health care or see costs rise attend a rally against the GOP health care bill at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., Monday, July 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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FILE - In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, talks with fellow lawmakers on the House floor at the Texas Capitol in Austin. Straus says he doesn't want a "suicide" on his hands over a so-called bathroom bill that Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering lawmakers to revive later this month. LGBT rights groups say efforts to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use are discriminatory and could elevate the risk of suicides. Backers of the bill say privacy protections are needed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, Dr. Tim Gocha walks past boxes containing remains of immigrants who've died along the U.S-Mexico border at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify immigrant remains found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family member. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, in an effort to help with identification, students work to clean the skeletal remains of an immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this April 12, 2017 photo, Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this April 12, 2017 photo Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, the skeletal remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border sits at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas, where efforts are being made to discover the person identity. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this April 12, 2017 photo, Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, the skeletal remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border is seen at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas, where efforts are being made to discover the person identity. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, in an effort to help with identification, students works to clean the skeletal remains of an immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
