Holy Hormones Journal » Women’ http://holyhormones.com The Greatest Story Never Told Wed, 23 May 2012 16:26:15 +0000 en hourly 1 The Greatest Story Never Told Holy Hormones Journal no The Greatest Story Never Told Holy Hormones Journal » Women’ http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://holyhormones.com Arrest Rate for Rape Unchanged since late 1970′s – this is an Unfinished Revolution http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/sexual-abuse/rape-sexual-abuse/arrest-rate-for-rape-unchanged-since-late-1970s-this-is-an-unfinished-revolution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arrest-rate-for-rape-unchanged-since-late-1970s-this-is-an-unfinished-revolution http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/sexual-abuse/rape-sexual-abuse/arrest-rate-for-rape-unchanged-since-late-1970s-this-is-an-unfinished-revolution/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:11:50 +0000 Leslie Carol Botha http://holyhormones.com/?p=15881

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The U.S. has struggled to make progress in the way the criminal-justice system addresses violence against women and girls. Only in the last 40 years have laws and systems been put in place to prohibit a victim’s prior sexual activity from being entered into evidence, to eliminate the requirement that there be a corroborating witness to a rape, and to create procedures to collect physical evidence from victims.

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[Leslie Carol Botha: According to Sarah Tofte, author of  The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Right's...too many rape cases in this country don’t just remain unresolved—they remain uninvestigated.']This is one revolution that needs to be won for the sake of women.

A Needed Revolution: Rape and U.S. Justice

The arrest rate for rape—24 percent—has not changed since the late 1970s. In the new Human Rights Watch book The Unfinished Revolution, Sarah Tofte explains why.

The Daily Beast
Women and the World
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The U.S. has struggled to make progress in the way the criminal-justice system addresses violence against women and girls. Only in the last 40 years have laws and systems been put in place to prohibit a victim’s prior sexual activity from being entered into evidence, to eliminate the requirement that there be a corroborating witness to a rape, and to create procedures to collect physical evidence from victims.

Today police and prosecutors are extensively trained in how to move cases forward, and sexual-assault investigative and prosecutorial units are common in most major cities.

Yet despite these reforms, the number of reported rapes that lead to an arrest—much less a conviction—remains intractably small. In 2010 the arrest rate for rape was 24 percent, which was exactly what it was in the late 1970s, when the FBI first began tracking such data. Too many rape cases in this country don’t just remain unresolved—they remain uninvestigated.

Most reported rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim knows, and law enforcement operate on the misguided assumption that these so-called acquaintance-rape cases are too hard to prove or are false reports by victims motivated to harm the accused. Consequently, these “non-stranger” rape cases often languish after they are reported, and, even when they do move forward, law-enforcement officers see no need to test a rape kit in the case, since they already know who the suspect is.

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House Republicans, unsure how to proceed, have slowed their efforts to overturn a federal rule requiring employers, including religious institutions, to provide female employees with free health insurance coverage for contraceptives.

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Overriding women’s rights for ‘religious employers’ (men) who may violate their religious beliefs and moral convictions to provide female employees with free health insurance coverage for contraceptives. Birth control needs to get out of the hands of men and the government.

House G.O.P. Hesitates on Birth Control Fight

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Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times Representative Fred Upton, (R) of Michigan, said on Feb. 8 he would move quickly on legislation to overturn the contraception rule.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans, unsure how to proceed, have slowed their efforts to overturn a federal rule requiring employers, including religious institutions, to provide female employees with free health insurance coverage for contraceptives.

While most House Republicans still support legislation to broaden the exemption for religious employers, House Republican leaders are carefully reviewing their options on the issue, which Democrats used to political advantage in the Senate.

The goal of House Republicans has not changed, they said, but they worry about further alienating women in this year’s elections.

In a speech on the House floor on Feb. 8, Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, vowed to block the Obama administration rule because, he said, it would force many religious employers to violate their religious beliefs and moral convictions.

“This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and will not stand,” Mr. Boehner said then. The Energy and Commerce Committee is “taking the lead” in writing legislation to overturn the president’s policy, Mr. Boehner said then.

On the same day, Representative Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan and chairman of the committee, said, “I plan to move quickly” on legislation.

But five weeks later, no legislation is in sight. Aides to Mr. Upton said the decision about how to proceed was in the hands of the speaker.

“It’s been kicked up to the leadership,” a committee member said. “They want a cooling-off period.”

Aides to the House Republican whip, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, said they detected no urgency in taking up legislation. A leadership aide said the speaker was taking “a deliberative approach.”

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