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Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala proposed government activism in tackling the problems of domestic violence in a speech at the Kennedy School last night...
...speech titled, "Building on the Violence Against Women Act: New Challenges for a Safer America," Shalala advocated a "seamless system" which would protect women in danger of abuse...
...Right now we are at a crossroads. Never before has so much public attention been focussed on the abuse of women and families," Shalala said. "And never before have we had the momentum on a national scale to develop systemic and comprehensive solutions...
...Shalala described the first steps in implementing the Violence Against Women Act. The first phase will be a 24 hour-a-day national hot line for women facing domestic abuse...
...policy that banned funding to international organizations that promoted comprehensive family planning, and signed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to ensure that women and their doctors can enter clinics without fearing intimidation and violence. And the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Donna Shalala, implemented a change to the Hyde Amendment obligating states to pay for abortions for poor women whose pregnancies result from rape or incest, or endanger the life of the mother...