Fw: now-action-list Protest the Appointment of M. Pfotenhauer to the Violence Against Women Advisory Committee

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From: " National Organization for Women " <now@...>

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Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 10:19 AM

Subject: now-action-list Protest the Appointment of M. Pfotenhauer to

the Violence Against Women Advisory Committee

> Please feel free to forward the following to activists:

>

> From the National Organization for Women Action Center:

>

> Protest the Appointment of M. Pfotenhauer to the Violence Against

> Women Advisory Committee

>

> Take Action:

>

> Tell Attorney General Ashcroft, Health and Human Services Secretary

> Tommy and W. Bush that foes of the Violence Against Women

> Act (VAWA) have no place on the National Advisory Committee on Violence

> Against Women!

>

> Click here to take action:

> http://www.now.org/congress/issues/alert/?alertid=494001 & type=CU

>

> Background:

>

> On Women's Equality Day, August 26, it was announced that Attorney General

> Ashcroft nominated Independent Women's Forum President 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!

>

> 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.

>

> Take Action:

>

> Tell Attorney General Ashcroft, Health and Human Services Secretary

> Tommy and W. Bush that M. Pfotenhauer and other foes

> of VAWA have no place on the National Advisory Committee on Violence

> Against Women.

>

> Please also contact congressional VAWA champions Sen. Orrin Hatch

(R-Utah),

> Sen. ph Biden (D-Del.) and Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.) and ask them to

> voice their concerns as well. Their contact information is below:

>

> Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah):

> phone: 202-224-5251 - e-mail: http://hatch.senate.gov/email_form.htm

>

> Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.):

> phone: (202) 225-5341 - e-mail: rep.morella@...

>

> Sen. ph Biden (D-Del.):

> phone: 202-224-5042 - e-mail: senator@...

>

> Click on the following link to send a message to Attorney General

> Ashcroft, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy and W.

> Bush:

> http://www.now.org/congress/issues/alert/?alertid=494001 & type=CU

>

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