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New Mexico State Rep. Cathrynn Brown has come under attack for a bill she recently introduced that would brand survivors of rape and incest who become pregnant and chose to have abortions as felons.
On Wednesday, Brown, a Republican from Carlsbad, submitted House bill 206, which equates a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest as evidence, meaning that terminating the pregnancy would constitute destruction of evidence.
“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime,” the bill reads.
It's too bad Republicans are so good at cheating and gerrymandering. If it were a fair playing-field, Democrats would have more power (they'd have the majority in the US House for instance).
It's to keep the rapist from making the woman have an abortion. A father raped his 3 daughters and they had a total of 10 abortions before he was stopped. A law like this would keep the man from doing it again and again. Also, PP could do a much better job in catching these creeps if they would only investigate and report it to police.
It's to keep the rapist from making the woman have an abortion. A father raped his 3 daughters and they had a total of 10 abortions before he was stopped. A law like this would keep the man from doing it again and again. Also, PP could do a much better job in catching these creeps if they would only investigate and report it to police.
Wow, so PP is the police now?
One would think it would be up to DPS to catch and/or stop rapists.
It's to keep the rapist from making the woman have an abortion. A father raped his 3 daughters and they had a total of 10 abortions before he was stopped. A law like this would keep the man from doing it again and again. Also, PP could do a much better job in catching these creeps if they would only investigate and report it to police.
I hope you are not being serious, this is the logic behind the law????
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House Bill 206, introduced by state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence."
“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime," the bill says.
Actually this is a dupe thread, but 'ya still gotta wonder, what are they gonna do with the ''evidence''... put a crib in the Evidence Locker?!!
BTW, this bill wasn't just the work of one lone nutter... it was supported by 8 other GOP state senators!!
One would think it would be up to DPS to catch and/or stop rapists.
Maybe I'm just weird like that.
They are on the front line and one would expect them to report someting they think is a RAPE. All of us as citizens are expected to do the same thing. Doctors report what they think is child abuse all the time I expect PP to be as viligant, is that too much to ask of them?
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