Not one Republican supports a bill to protect domestic violence victims

[babylonsister]

Not one Republican supports a bill to protect domestic violence victims
By Emily Crockett -
August 15, 2018


The GOP is shrugging its shoulders at an urgent deadline to renew the most important U.S. law protecting abuse victims.

Not a single Republican in the U.S. House has signed on to renew a major law that helps victims of domestic violence — even though Congress only has 11 legislative days to act before it expires.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), first enacted in 1994, was a groundbreaking piece of legislation that made sure our justice system treats domestic violence like the serious crime it is — not a “private family matter,” as many used to believe.

VAWA needs to be reauthorized by Congress every now and then, which Congress has typically done without a fuss and with broad bipartisan support.

That is, it used to — until Republicans raised a stink in 2013 over expanding the law’s protections for LGBTQ people, undocumented immigrants, and Native Americans.

VAWA funds crucial services like rape crisis centers, community violence prevention programs, and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. It also offers legal protections against outrages like victims of sexual assault being forced to pay for their own rape kits, or victims of abuse or stalking being evicted from their homes because their attacker caused too many disturbances.

In short, VAWA is a big deal if you care at all about women’s health and safety or about protecting abuse victims.

Too bad those issues are an afterthought, at best, for today’s Republican Party.

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https://shareblue.com/vawa-violence-against-women-act-republicans-renew-reauthorize-deadline/

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Damn every single one of them. They are the abusers.

[Va Lefty]

2. Shameful. As a white 56 year old male, I hope women can save our Country in Nov.

[dlk]

3. The GOP is the Women-Haters Party

[2naSalit]

4. Because they want to abuse wity impunity

and protect the cheato jesus from any more litigation.

[Trumpocalypse]

5. Thought they were the Law & Order Party

Maybe they just like the TV show.