Tag: domestic violence

It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump administration, those protections are eroding.

Clarence Thomas stands alone in dissent as the Supreme Court upholds a law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing firearms, sparking outrage and renewed calls for judicial accountability.

The very doctors who play a crucial role in identifying and assisting victims of intimate partner violence, namely OB-GYNs, are facing increasing challenges in providing this essential care.

Dozens of unions in the United States and Canada with contract language providing domestic violence survivors with the resources crucial to breaking free of their abusers.

I hope and wish that all do our very best to protect our kids and children from going through such experiences in the first place.

But the fact is that the criminal system supported by the act isn’t stopping intimate partner violence.

Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, California joins nine other states and enacts trio of gun control bills that affect domestic violence offenders and more.

“People at risk of harming themselves or others should not have easy access to firearms."

“There’s absolutely no doubt that the practice of violence within a home . . . opens the floodgates to public violence.”

For those leading our country, gun control simply doesn’t seem as dangerous or as risky as it does for the people who are being killed and hurt on a daily basis.