QUESTION:

In regard to physical abuse, there seems to be a movement in the country now, a woman’s movement to get legislation to liberate these battered women who have been sentenced to jail for dispatching their husbands one way or another, after being subjected to a lifetime of physical abuse. Is this just another case of media stories, or does Awareness see this as something that is going to grow? For example, one governor has said that he’s considering releasing most of the women in the state penitentiary who have been sentenced and who have been spending many years in prison for shooting their husband or slaying him in one way or another in desperation, having been abused and battered for many years. Is this a growing trend or is this another media hype?

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that it appears the media is reporting the information as significant. It is newsworthy and it is information that reflects situations in society. It appears that there is becoming a greater social awareness on the part of society as to the extent of abuse that women have endured from some of the situations in which these women were subjected, in which this abuse is a mitigating circumstance in their motivation and in their response to the abuse that is being given greater weight than at previous times.

It appears that previously, they were expected to endure further abuse rather than to defend themselves in a way that might cause the death of the abuser. It is now being considered that they should not have to endure torture and that in defending themselves by self-defense measures that may take the abuser’s life, there is a certain justification. This Awareness indicates that this is being given more weight in the balance of justice.

ED’s Note: For more information on this subject, please refer to "Revelations of Awareness" issues 78-43, "Incest and Bestiality"; and 81-25, "Incest: The Unspeakable Crime"; $3 each from CAC.