Boston Globe slugs Palin on rape kit fees

[SoxFan]

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/09/30/wasilla_made_rape_victims_pay/

Whether the fee-for-kits policy reflected Palin's budgetary zeal or her extreme view on abortion, voters deserve to know. As Alaska's governor in 2000, Tony Knowles, put it: "We would never bill the victim of a burglary for finger-printing and photographing the crime scene, or for the cost of gathering other evidence."

But in Wasilla they would, if the crime was rape.

[thereismore]

1. She needs to be confronted with this on national TV. nt

[TwilightGardener]

2. She'll just say she disagrees with the policy, and had she known, she

would have changed it--that's been her explanation in the past.

[thereismore]

3. That's fine, just let the bitch say it. Most people haven't heard of this. nt

[AlCzervik]

4. Why does Plain hate rape victims? or is just that she hates women? Last night she

said a 15 year old girl getting raped or raped by her dad was "Less than ideal" but she would still "Counsel her to choose life". WTF is wrong with her, why does she want to further traumatize rape victims?