Well, the abusers are getting annulments now, so it isn't like the process isn't being abused already.  Bill O'Reilly has no problems getting an annulment despite abusing his wife (or special favors from Timmy D for that matter).  What AL does is level the playing field.  For instance, Bill O'Reilly cannot threaten his ex-wife or try to get her excommunicated for receiving Communion like he did a few years back now.  A woman (or man) who doesn't want to have to deal with the annulment tribunal because they had a messy divorce or crazy ex-spouse doesn't have to.  Money unfortunately still talks within parishes; I've seen it happen.  However, a norm is more likely to get a fair hearing and compassion from a pastor than he/she is from a bishop or a sterile Church bureaucracy.