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No anti-feminists on the Violence Against Women Advisory Committee 2002-09-23, 12:55 p.m. Protest the Appointment of Nancy M. Pfotenhauer to the Violence Against Women Advisory Committee Tell Attorney General John Ashcroft, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and George W. Bush that foes of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) have no place on the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women! On Women's Equality Day, August 26, it was announced that Attorney General John Ashcroft nominated Independent Women's Forum President Nancy M. Pfotenhauer, as well as another IWF member, to the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. Pfotenhauer and the Independent Women's Forum are vocal opponents of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). As if that will be helpful on a Committee on Violence Against Women. Representatives of the Independent Women's Forum have testified in Congress against VAWA and supported a lawsuit challenging the act. Materials on the Independent Women's Forum's site claim, for example, that "the battered women's movement has outlived its useful beginnings" and that VAWA "is based on ignorance, non-facts, and wishful thinking about the power of the federal government to curb violence between intimate partners." As a member of the committee, Pfotenhauer will now advise the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services in implementing VAWA, which provides funds to track down domestic abusers, expand shelters for battered women and prevent violent crimes against women on college campuses. IWF's continuing opposition to VAWA indicates that Pfotenhauer and her allies do not have the safety and health of women and children at heart when it comes to our nation's efforts to end domestic and sexual violence. click here to send an action alert on this issue.
Anyone? - 2008-01-24
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