Emerging Domestic Violence Issue:
Recently the Violence Against Women Act was renewed but not
without bipartisan opposition. What makes
this renewal different was the addition of a few differences to the original
legislature which is what ultimately drew the opposition; basically the law
extends protection to gays, lesbians and transgender individuals as well as
raising the amount of visas available to legal and illegal victims of
abuse. The law would also authorize
Native American officials to be able to handle abuse cases where a Native
American woman is victimized by a Non Native American. I thought that this was an important issue to
address because times have definitely changed and Americans are much more
accepting of differing sexual orientation, such as homosexuality, so our laws,
especially this in particular, should address the changing times.
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