Peace Place Executive Director Comments on Renewal of Violence Against Women Act
Kelley Ondovchik calls the reauthorization of the bill "a great step forward."
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to renew the previously stalled Violence Against Women Act, which originally expired in 2011, and the bill is awaiting the president's signature. Kelley Ondovchik, executive director for Peace Place, an area shelter that assists battered women and their children, had the following to say about the law: According to a Washington Post article, the law has been renewed twice before without controversy, but it lapsed in 2011 caught up in the partisan battles dividing Congress. Last year, the House refused to pass a Senate-approved bill that would have made clear that lesbians, gays, immigrants and Native American women should have equal access to Violence Against Women Act programs. The …
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