State Leaders Seek Solutions to Domestic Violence, While Angle Took the Side of the Abuser

Leaders meet to discuss state’s high domestic violence rate, recall Angle’s extreme positions on restraining orders

Today state leaders are meeting in Las Vegas to discuss ways to combat Nevada’s high incidence of domestic violence.

But in Sharron Angle’s Nevada, police would have one less tool to prevent domestic violence, and more women would be at risk.

The state has the highest rate in the nation of women murdered by men, a shocking statistic that prompted today’s summit.

But Sharron Angle voted against a bill to allow police to enforce restraining orders issued in other states. Thankfully her colleagues in the Nevada Legislature – including many Republicans – overruled her to pass a law that enjoyed support of law enforcement and victims’ advocates alike.

"Police, especially here in Nevada, need all the help they can get to protect women from their abusers. But in yet another extreme stand, Sharron Angle took the side of abusers instead of their victims,” said Kyle Lopez, a Nevada police officer. “That's a position that's just too dangerous for women and for all Nevadans."

But Angle’s extreme stand against giving police the tools they need to combat violence against women is just one of her dangerous, anti-woman positions.

Angle would also force victims of rape and incest to have their attacker’s baby, or – as Angle put it – to make “lemonade out of a lemon situation.”

And Angle has bragged about sponsoring a bill that would have repealed existing law requiring insurance companies to cover mammograms and other cancer screenings.

“Her alarming plans to ax breast cancer screenings and her drastic suggestion that rape survivors should be forced to have their attackers’ babies make it clear Sharron Angle is so far outside the mainstream she couldn’t find it on a map,” said Phoebe Sweet, communications director for the Nevada State Democratic Party. “But as 120 leaders from across the state sit down today to come up with solutions to our domestic violence problem, we are reminded once again that she’s not just out of touch, she’s downright dangerous for Nevada women. And her incredible vote against enforcing out-of-state restraining orders – over the objections of law enforcement officials who asked for more tools to protect women from domestic violence – is just one example of an extreme, dangerous agenda.”