National Coalition For Men Endorses GOP Version Of VAWA Bill

[boston bean]

NCFM is an advocacy group dedicated to ending sex discrimination, particularly against men.

In an interview with TPM, NCFM president Harry Crouch elaborated on his group’s support for the GOP’s bill — which the White House has threatened to veto.

Crouch said the House bill meets his criteria that the Act should be gender inclusive.

“Basically whether you’re male or female makes no difference,” Crouch said. “If you’re abused we all bleed.”

The version Democrats support, he says, doesn’t protect male victims of violence. “if it was true why wouldn’t we call it the DV [Domestic Violence] prevention act?”

Neither the House nor the Senate bill, however, is meant to address NCFM’s other major complaint.

“People are getting arrested left and right,” Crouch said. He’d like the act to be amended to “mak[e] sure that those who are accused of violence don’t have their lives destroyed by false accusations.”

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/vawa-violence-against-women-national-coalition-for-men.php

[seabeyond]

1. Protect immigrant women from violence

Nicole came to the United States from Indonesia on a temporary fiancée visa, fully expecting that she would enjoy life in a new country with the U.S. citizen she intended to marry. Instead, she found herself trapped as a victim of sex trafficking. Nicole (not her real name), like thousands of other women, was forced to engage in commercial sex acts against her will. We heard about her when she received support from the Salvation Army STOP-IT Program in Illinois, which serves victims who have been harmed by the sex trade. (The Salvation Army is a denominational member of the National Association of Evangelicals.) Eventually, Nicole escaped from her trafficker and assisted law enforcement in the prosecution of the crime committed against her. Though Nicole's fiancée visa had lapsed, leaving her susceptible to deportation, our nation's anti-trafficking law provided a legal option for her to be granted permanent legal status by helping law enforcement to prosecute her trafficker. With the help of a nonprofit legal service provider and the Salvation Army, Nicole was able to petition on her own for legal status -- and obtain it -- through a special "U" visa for immigrant victims of crime, allowing her to get back on her feet and begin rebuilding her life.

By force, fraud or coercion, traffickers keep victims enslaved in prostitution or forced labor.

This week the House of Representatives is considering a proposal to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, first enacted in 1994, but in a new version that would significantly undermine the same U visa program that provided Nicole with safety and permanency in the United States. The U.S. government estimates that as many as 17,500 foreign-born victims are illegally trafficked in from abroad each year, and academic estimates suggest that at least 100,000 victims of human trafficking live in the United States today.

If the House proposal is enacted, thousands like Nicole could remain enslaved, too afraid to speak out because some of their most effective safeguards will have disappeared. The proposal., introduced by Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Florida, would dramatically roll back important protections for battered immigrant women and their children. It could face a vote Wednesday afternoon. Several provisions would leave immigrant victims of human trafficking and domestic abuse no legal way to break the cycle of violence in which they are trapped.

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We don't want a bill that endangers some of the women and children it purports to help. Overall, this bill's proposed changes to current law would discourage immigrant victims from escaping abuse and reporting crimes, and make all of us less safe. Women -- and, often, their children -- come to our churches for sanctuary and hope. We believe Adams' proposal would put more lives in danger. It would perpetuate abusers' use of immigration status as part of the cycle of exploitation.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/opinion/anderson-hybels-vawa/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

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put a women out in front going after women for the patriarchy. it is interesting.

[seabeyond]

2. i was going to put up an article of the bullshit from the group....

but i couldnt. had to delete. it was too, too bad. the misrepresentation, ect...

[laconicsax]

3. MRAs siding with open misogynists? I'm shocked! n/t

[iverglas]

4. "NCFM is an advocacy group dedicated to ending sex discrimination, particularly against men."

Damn, eh?

Nobody wants to traffic in men these days ...

[BlueIris]

5. Protecting men from sex discrimination.

[laconicsax]

6. I know. Ridiculous, isn't it?

First, they deny discrimination against women exists. Then, they fight against legislation outlawing discrimination against women. Next, once discrimination lessens a bit and women are able to excel in areas that were previously off-limits, misogynists start whining about how they're discriminated against because they don't dominate absolutely everything (except when it comes to crime and prison statistics).

[seabeyond]

7. "women would begin to act JUST LIKE MEN!"

this is the contradiction i find outstanding.

in teh 80's feminist were proving that we are human and not a difference. the last decade or so mra, media, society as a whole, men really pushing there is a HUGE difference. testosterone, ya know. i mean, it has been the battle cry of the last decade.

now they have a post over there and in order to sell the women could even be more violent.... they have to say we are the same. what happened with that all consuming, all powerful testosterone making all of who the man is? if a woman is just the same.

i find it a hoot.

[redqueen]

8. Related. I think this has been posted elsewhere on DU, but just in case anyone missed it...

http://jezebel.com/5910881/why-a-wife-beater-mail-order-bride-service-and-mens-rights-group-improbably-joined-forces