BRODERICK MURDERS

Under a bill (AB 2613) proposed by Assemblyman Jerry Eaves (D-Rialto), a woman who commits premeditated murder, shooting her husband in his sleep, would be entitled to go free if she could claim to have been a victim of battered women’s syndrome. Similarly, a woman who kills her child may now defend a murder charge by pleading postpartum psychosis.

Women who abuse their husbands ought to be arrested and forced into a treatment program for female batterers. Unfortunately, there are no such programs in California. Our state has adopted radical, feminist policies that see men as inherently violent and marriage as inherently demeaning to women. The feminist party line says only men can be capable of initiating violence within the family. As long as the California Legislature continues to enact domestic-violence laws based on these flawed assumptions, real solutions to the problem of female violence against men will remain elnusive.

MICHAEL B. STONE

INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR BATTERED WOMEN

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