1 in 3 women will be sexually assaulted and/or raped during her lifetime.  Sexual violence is an EPIDEMIC that is preventable, and our government and country need to get serious about ending it.  Rape crisis centers and state coalitions against sexual assault operate either in debt or with barely enough money to get by, and funding these essential organizations should be a top priority of President-Elect Obama and his administration.  President-Elect Obama should also enusre that not another survivor of rape ever has to pay for a forensic medical exam (commonly known as a "rape kit").  The fact that survivors are being charged for evidence collection is a travesty of justice and an embarassment to the United States.  Imagine if sexual violence was ended the amount of energy that women could spend on science, creativity, and other endeavors...instead of spending this energy on being afraid; on not trusting our fathers, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, friends; on constantly looking over our shoulders.  Imagine a world free of sexual violence, Mr. President-Elect, and then make that world a REALITY.  Thank you.