Schneiderman’s activism on behalf of feminist causes has increasingly won him praise from women’s groups.
On May 1st, the New York-based National Institute for Reproductive Health honored him as one of three “Champions of Choice” at its annual fund-raising luncheon. Accepting the award, Schneiderman said, “
If a woman cannot control her body, she is not truly equal.” But,
as Manning Barish sees it, “you cannot be a champion of women when you are hitting them and choking them in bed, and saying to them, ‘You’re a $#@!ing whore.’ ” -
New Yorker
Manning Barish said of Schneiderman's involvement in the Weinstein investigation "
How can you put a perpetrator in charge of the country's most important sexual-assault case?"
Selvaratnam describes Schneiderman as “a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” figure, and says that seeing him lauded as a supporter of women has made her “feel sick,” adding, “This is a man who has staked his entire career, his personal narrative, on being a champion for women publicly. But he abuses them privately. He needs to be called out.” -New Yorker
“His hypocrisy is epic,” says Manning Barish. “
He’s fooled so many people.”
Ironically, after his election to the New York State Senate in 1998 where he served for twelve years, Schneiderman wrote several laws,
including one which created specific penalties for strangulation in 2010. He also chaired a committee that investigated domestic-violence charges against former state senator Hiram Monserrrate (D), who was kicked out of office after a conviction for assaulting his girlfriend.
During the hearings, the legislators learned that New York State imposed no specific criminal penalty for choking, even though it is a common prelude to domestic-violence homicides. Not only did Schneiderman’s bill make life-threatening strangulation a grave crime; it also criminalized less serious cases involving “an intent to impede breathing” as misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in prison. “I’m just sorry it took us so long in New York State to do this,” Schneiderman declared at the time. “I think this will save a lot of lives.”
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