A straight-shooting look at US Politics, with a strong focus on the Bush administration, the religious right, and civil rights, from DC-based political strategist and writer John Aravosis. ...
A reader writes and asks an interesting question. Sarah Palin's town of Wasilla, Alaska, was the only - or at the very least, one of the very few - towns in Alaska to charge rape victims for their own rape kits. Now, rape kits are the medical equipment that the police use to examine rape victims for forensic evidence. During that exam, women are sometimes given oral contraceptives to stop or fend off any possible pregnancy that resulted from the rape. (As an aside, the reader asked if sometimes during these exams a fertilized egg is collected as evidence - does anybody have the facts on this?) Now, Sarah Palin's policy on rape is the following - rapist gets your pregnant, too bad, you're going to carry your rapist's child for 9 months whether you like it or not. Palin wants to outlaw all abortion, unless the mother is going to die. You get raped? You don't get an abortion. And extreme conservatives like Sarah Palin consider oral contraceptives like RU-486 "abortion." (And if a fertilized egg is collected, they certainly consider that abortion, and murder.) Is this why Sarah Palin was quite possibly the only mayor in Alaska to charge for "rape kits"? She considered treating rape victims a form of abortion? It's been almost a week now that the Obama campaign has ignored this issue. We wrote about it last Monday , a good 5 days ago. Obama said yesterday that the reason he's not hitting back harder against McCain is because he doesn't ...
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