Blog critique over the V.A.W.A.

This blog http://crooksandliars.com/nonny-mouse/gwen-moore-and-violence-against-women-, really caught my attention because I have encountered many women in my life who have been victims domestic violence, rape and many other awful forms of abuse. The woman who wrote this blog's name is Nonny Mouse and was a victim of of abuse and sexual assault many times over the course of her life.  Her blog regarding her support for the Violence Against Women Act discusses how many Republican's such as Rep. Bob Turner have voted against the renewal of this act. In the article Mouse describes how Rep. Gwen Moore spoke out at the House of Representatives about her very own heart wrenching and sad stories of her being molested as a child and later the victim of a terrible rape which led to the pregnancy of her now adult son. Violence against women is absolutely a national issue considering thousands of women are raped, sexually abused and mentally abused every year in the United States. The V.A.W.A is was passed in 1994 and has been reauthorized twice since then. Now that it is up for renewal it is not being favored by everyone in the house, which is what Mouse' blog was mainly about. She describes Republicans and the GOP as not being responsive to attacks on women's health saying "They don't give a flying fox about women" and " The GOP has lost no time in trotting out their angry mama grizzles to support the backlash against women and minorities in general". Her intended audience is apparently anyone who supports women's rights, females in general and right wings who appear to be non caring and non supportive of protecting women and punishing the people who commit these violent crimes. I do agree with what Mouse is saying. In my opinion women as well as men should be equally protected and reserve the right to medical care that follows after these crimes, including abortions. As an avid supporter of health care practices such as Planned Parenthood it made me so angry when the Governor of the state I call home, Rick Perry, pulled all the funding from them. These places assist women who need help.Some after situations including sexual assault and it is sad that Rick Perry   is so one sided when it comes to the issue. Now with that being said the more I looked into the V.A.W.A., I started to see why maybe not every body supported it. I do agree with the American Civil Liberties Union with their concerns about the act saying that " the increased penalties were rash, the increased pretrial detention was "repugnant" to the US Constitution, the mandatory HIV testing to those who were only charged but not convicted is an infringement of a citizens right to privacy and the edict for automatic payment of full restitution was non-judicious." I also found that it wanted to put in the act that it would grant visas for illegal immigrants who were victims of sexual abuse, and protect American Indians living on reservations which could give the tribal courts more power. These were provisions that House of Representatives took out when the put their revision for the bill up to pass. Its a very grey area as far as the bill is concerned and while it did not pass when it was up for renewal in January of 2013, the revisions that were made and passed in 2005 remain. i feel that Nonny Mouse did a great job of getting her point of how important of  an issue attacks on women's health are but I think calling Republicans names such as "rich fat, white men' is a little childish and doesn't help to gain support of opposition she is trying to convince. As I take this Government course I am learning that not everything in politics is black and white and while you may wonder how anybody could vote against something that is protecting our mothers, daughters, aunts and so forth you sometimes have to dug a little deeper to see where opposing views come from. Nonny's is a credible resource considering she is first had example of women that are abused and raped in the United States. This is an act that I feel both parties agree on, just have opposed views on how it should be executed.