Phyllis Schlafly: Time to dispose of radical feminist pork
why i'm spending sleep time responding to this, i don't know. but this burns me up.
a lot of people don't know what VAWA or VOCA is (VOCA=Victim of Crime Act). VAWA is up for reauthorization in the fall; if this act is unauthorized, how women and families who are victims of violence (often domestic) are treated in the legal system will change. and not in a good way.
what VAWA has accomplished:
- between 1993 to 2001 there was virtually a 50% drop in incidents of nonfatal domestic violence and from 1993 to 2000 there was a 20% drop in women killed by current or former intimate partners.
- between 1993 and 2001 there was a 50% decrease in the number of sexual assaults and rape perpetrated against individuals 12 years old and older.
- and in 2003, after being in existence for only seven years, the National Domestic Violence Hotline answered its one-millionth call for assistance. Today, the National Domestic Violence Hotline answers over 16,000 calls a month and provides access to translators in 139 languages.
phyllis may enjoy licking the blood off some man's knuckles but i don't think most women are down with that.
read up on the act and contact your rep to encourage them to reauthorize the bill. it's important.
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if you're the same anonymous who nearly gave me a stroke earlier - boom. you're gone.
you piss me off.
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