Request for ACTION: Make certain our women and girls continue have access to justice.

[Skidmore]

Read this article

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/52266.html

Critics: Under Palin, Wasilla charged rape victims for exam
George Bryson | Anchorage Daily News
last updated: September 11, 2008 07:41:22 AM

Two state leaders lashed out at the public record of Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday as witnesses in a new "Alaska Mythbusters" forum coordinated by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Speaking to a teleconference audience of reporters around the nation, former Gov. Tony Knowles and current Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein -- both Democrats -- accused Palin of misleading the public in her new role as the vice presidential running mate of Arizona Sen. John McCain.

While some of their complaints have already been aired, Knowles broke new ground while answering a reporter's question on whether Wasilla forced rape victims to pay for their own forensic tests when Palin was mayor.

True, Knowles said.

Eight years ago, complaints about charging rape victims for medical exams in Wasilla prompted the Alaska Legislature to pass a bill -- signed into law by Knowles -- that banned the practice statewide....

Then:

E-mail this to every woman on your address list and print it out and distribute it. I don't understand the thought processes of a woman who would deny victims of rape access to justice by making the victim responsible for the collection of forensic evidence. This is an example of the policies for women that a McCain/Palin will bring.

[Skidmore]

1. Kick. Other women need to know this.

I have e-mailed this article to everyone I know this morning and had plenty of responses.

[Hepburn]

2. This is beyond disgusting....

....and I sent this info out to my email list with a request to please pass it along to all women and to all men ~~ after all the men have sisters and daughters. Anyone who would do something like denying a victim of rape a free exam ~~ and these exams serve to preserve the evidence for the prosecutors to go after the perpatrator of the rape ~~ is one fucking sick wack job. Unbelievable!

:grr: