Women’s Shelters Are Terrified Government Will Cut Their Funding

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February 1, 2017

This detailed article on the serious damage that potential cuts to VAWA funding would cause quotes both Legal Momentum Senior Vice President and Director of the National Judicial Education Program Lynn Hecht Schafran, and Legal Momentum Board Member Kim Gandy.

“It is not an exaggeration to say that without VAWA and these various efforts to serve survivors, we will have more deaths among women, and men in same sex couples, and the death toll will rise,” said Lynn Hecht Schafran, senior vice president of Legal Momentum, who has long trained judges on gender bias in the courtroom.

“Law enforcement hasn’t had to fight very hard for funding,” said Kim Gandy, president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. “There’s no doubt in my mind that’s one of the things that smoothed passage of the original Violence Against Women Act in 1994, was that more of than half of the funding went to law enforcement.”

The Fraternal Order of Police, the national cop union that endorsed Trump, said it would oppose a proposal to gut VAWA grants.

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