Raped? That'll be $1200 thanks.

In 2000, Alaska lawmakers learned that rural police agencies had been billing rape victims or their insurance companies $500 to $1,200 for the costs of the forensic medical examinations used to gather evidence. They quickly passed a law prohibiting the practice.

According to the sponsor, Democrat Eric Croft, the law was aimed in part at Wasilla, where now-Gov. Sarah Palin was mayor. When it was signed, Wasilla's police chief expressed displeasure.

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Now that Palin is the Republican nominee for vice president, Democrats such as former Alaska governor Tony Knowles — who signed the rape-kit bill into law and was defeated by Palin in 2006 — are raising the issue to question Palin's commitment to women's issues and crime victims. Palin appointed Fannon after firing his predecessor shortly after she took office in 1996.

USA Today


Nice. Even when the insurance companies get billed, a rape victim may have had to pay a gap.

That's a great way to encourage victims to come forward.


Until the 2000 legislation, local law enforcement agencies in Alaska could pass along the cost of the exams, which are needed to obtain an attacker's DNA evidence. Rape victims in several areas of Alaska, including the Matanuska-Susitna Valley where Wasilla is, complained about being charged for the tests, victims' advocate Lauree Hugonin, of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, told state House committees, records show.

In cases when insurance companies are billed, the victims pay a deductible.

Fannon told the Frontiersman that the tests would cost the department up to $14,000 per year. He said he would rather force rapists to pay for the tests, not taxpayers.

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Nationally, victims' advocates have for years reported scattered instances of rape victims being required to pay for their forensic tests, says Ilse Knecht of the National Center for Victims of Crime in Washington. Those complaints have subsided somewhat after Congress in 2005 passed a law requiring states to provide rape exams free of charge or reimburse victims for the costs, says Knecht, whose group supported the provision.


Ooooh, guess who sponsored the federal version of the law to provide examinations fee of charge? Joe Biden. Obama's running mate.

McCain however, well he voted against it.


http://flamingredphoenix.blogspot.com/2008/09/raped-thatll-be-1200-thanks.html

a rape survivor should call around to different hospitals to find the least expensive price.

Well, it was probably her fault she was raped, so she deserves to pay.











again, I shouldn't need this, but just in case -
:sarcasm:

She wanted it, but later regretted being "loose", so made up a story about being forced to do it.

It's not fair for men to have to be embarrassed and prosecuted because of some woman's lies. How many young men's lives have been ruined by these false accusations?

So if a woman is going to try to have a man prosecuted for "rape", she should at least pay for the investigation. We can't expect taxpayers to pay for these women's lies and personal vendettas.


(Please note that this is NOT my personal viewpoint, but I'll be damned if this isn't the thinking behind making women pay for their own justice. These people don't view rape as a crime and it disgusts me)

they receive from Gov. Palin's fuel relief to offset the rise in fuel prices?

http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/sep/04/amount-alaska-permanent-fund-dividend-be-announced/



The irony of it all.

Best not to report it, eh?