Mariska Hargitay, longtime television star LAW & ORDER: Special Victim Response Officedeplored the court’s decision to overturn the rape conviction of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein during a speech in New York on Thursday.
actress talked in of variety At Lifetime’s “Power of Women” event, she slammed the court for discounting the testimony of women who say they suffered abuse at the hands of Mr. Weinstein.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul scored a major legal victory late last month after a New York court overturned his 2020 conviction for two counts of felony sexual assault.
The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that the judge in the Weinstein case “should not have allowed prosecutors to call as witnesses a series of women who say they were assaulted by Mr. Weinstein.” did.
The findings stunned Hargitay, who accused the court of neglecting women’s voices.
“Today I want to talk about overturning convictions,” Hargitay said, citing the Weinstein case. “Survivors matter, what happened to us matters, and our society needs to be more compassionate, more whole, with a deeper, more nuanced understanding of what it means to heal.” It is impossible to overturn my belief that we must respond to survivors.”
“I have something to say about the Harvey Weinstein conviction that was overturned,” she added. “There were too many women’s voices as to why it was overturned specifically. Too many women were allowed to speak.”
“Is it dangerous to let women speak? That’s exactly the case. Too many women speaking out brings about change,” she said. She raged that her backlash against #MeToo was proof of “how powerful that voice is.”
“It is impossible to overturn my belief that we must listen to the voices of survivors,” Hargitay exclaimed.
Ms. Hargitay founded the Joyful Heart Foundation in 2004 to advocate for women who have been sexually assaulted and to support victims of domestic violence.
As part of her activism work, Hargitay collaborated with the NFL in 2014 to create “No More,” a public service announcement to raise awareness about domestic violence. The advertisement was aired on thursday night football That season.
In 2022, Roe vs. Wadeshe also campaigned in favor of abortion on social media.
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