Violence Against Women Act Termed 'Fundamentally Flawed': SAVE Calls for End to Partisan Rhetoric

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2012-04-24 18:20

Article here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, Apr 24, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The Heritage Foundation has recently released a report that concludes the proposed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization is "a gross distortion of the original law and is gravely flawed." The think-tank report, Violence Against Women Act: Reauthorization Fundamentally Flawed, highlights how the bill now being debated in the U.S. Senate, S. 1925, would fund abuse-reduction programs that are unproven, duplicative, and wasteful: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/the-violence-against-women-act-reauthorization-fundamentally-flawed

At the heart of the proposed bill, the report argues, lies an ideologically rooted attempt at social engineering:

"Because proponents of the law argued that violence against women is a form of social control perpetuated by--according to their arguments--women's weaker social, political, and financial status, the substance of the VAWA focused largely on redistributing power and resources to female victims. This philosophy of group victimhood undermines equal protection and the rule of law and has been detrimental to the protection of victims generally."'

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this particular author disturbed me. He seems wholly unconcerned with men, as he never once (that I read) mentions the potential damage of controlling college campus sexual violence tribunals and the evidentiary standard. Furthermore, he puts the bellow in as a section title:

Mission Creep: Watering Down Services by Including Men and Prisoners

Providing services to men is "watering down" and a bad thing to him. That kind of blatant hostility bothers me.

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Submitted by Kratch on Wed, 2012-04-25 03:28

I am a huge proponent of bringing greater egalitarianism to government, and I have always been under the impression that the VAWA is anti-egalitarian. Unfortunately, that article just made me question my email to my senators! For the past few days I have been hearing more and more brouhaha about the VAWA. I don't like it for its name (e.g. what about men??) and I don't like it for its ideological bent. The mission creep - which oh the horror make the mission more egalitarian - is precisely the changes we NEED in the VAWA. To disparage these changes makes me question not only the Heritage Foundation but the Independent Women's Forum as well.

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Submitted by lance on Wed, 2012-04-25 16:12