Trumps Planned Elimination of Violence Against Women Grants Is Pure Cruelty

[SummerSnow]

By Christina Cauterucci

That includes all 25 of the grant programs managed by the Office on Violence Against Women, housed in the Department of Justice. The grants, established by 1994’s Violence Against Women Act and other federal legislation, go to organizations working to prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and elder abuse.

They also support survivors of assault and abuse—some grants are earmarked for transitional housing assistance, legal aid, and trainings to help civil and criminal justice systems better respond to sexual and domestic violence. There are grants specifically targeted at protecting child victims, residents of tribal lands, women with disabilities, children who’ve witnessed the abuse of a parent, and rural women.

These grants are small but crucial countermeasures in a system that’s built to cast doubt on survivors of sexual and intimate-partner violence. Without these programs, states and communities will be less able to help women who’ve been victimized rebuild their lives and hold their perpetrators accountable. Read this list of the grants the Trump administration wants to cut, and see if any of them sounds like a waste of funding.

The proposed elimination of these grants is cruel, and it neatly sums up Trump and his cohort’s dismissive view of women who come forward with sexual and domestic violence allegations. “A man with a well-documented history of sexually assaulting women is about to take over the federal government so it is sadly not surprising that he is gutting programs vital to protecting women from violence,” Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of women’s-rights group UltraViolet said in a statement. “With these cuts, Trump is also making it harder for law enforcement to protect women from predators like himself and members of his senior staff.”

And these planned grant cuts look even more unconscionable when viewed alongside the other entities Trump wants to purge from the Justice Department. He’s proposed drastic cuts to the divisions that work on civil rights and the environment, and he wants to completely axe the Legal Services Corporation, which administers grants for low-income Americans who can’t afford legal assistance. Trump’s plan also eliminates the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, a small but important advocate for a more just and effective system of U.S. law enforcement. Taken together, the cuts Trump has proposed to balance his budget send a clear message: the most vulnerable and the most in need of justice come last in Trump's America.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/01/19/trump_s_planned_elimination_of_violence_against_women_grants_is_pure_cruelty.html

* When it rains it pours. No surprise here.

[spanone]

1. not a shred of empathy

[DonCoquixote]

2. this is not just a lack of empathy

there is a very deliberate program by the GOP, and especially by some supporters that want to make damn sure that any woman that resisted the advances and abuse of a man is turned right back to him or at the very least has to go beg a church for help. this is not just a bunch of stupid men who are clueless. This is the opening salvo for a real worn women that will begin by making sure abused women are helpless, will progress with an assault on Roe V Wade, and if we allow it to make sure that women are subservient to the sorts of men that clog MRA groups, a.k.a. the sort of man that thinks the whole purpose of women is to get them laid and to breed his sons. And we also know why church charities are no substitute for the government, because frankly a lot of the church once a bunch of helpless women who have no choice but to breed a lot of boy babies, how else will factories have cheap disposable workers and the armies have cheap disposable soldiers all for the purposes of spreading the gospel.