Palin, Rape Kits and Abortion
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 drugs to stop the implantation of a possibly fertilized egg in the uterus. (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 stopping a fertilized egg from implanting “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?
And as a matter of fact, your typical rape kit DOES include emergency contraception. It’s not too hard to connect the dots on THIS little mystery: someone needs to ask Palin if she considers emergency contraception to be abortion. After all, the Bush Administration does.
Palin talks a lot about her daughter’s “choice” to follow carry her teenaged pregnancy to term (so much for the effectiveness of “abstinence education”), but I have a question. When you’d deny that choice to every other woman in America, and your daughte’s choice is -SURPRISE- exactly the choice you’d have her make, followed by the cha-chunk of a shotgun wedding, I’m wondering if Sarah Palin actually knows what the word “choice” means.
Sarah Palin: she’s not a MILF. She’s Bush in a dress, and given the opportunity she’ll do away with your reproductive rights faster than you can say “Roe”.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
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