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First off, lets start with a joke. This joke isn't so much funny as it is painful and true (via of thers at Whiskey Fire):
Q. What is a "fiscal conservative"?
A. Someone who demands that a woman pay thousands of dollars to properly investigate her own rape!
Why, you might be asking, is this joke painful and true? Because then-Mayor Palin was in charge of the only town in Alaska that forced women to pay for their own rape kits. That's right. Women who had just been raped had to pay for the police to do a horribly invasive--but necessary--examination, in order to gather evidence against rapists. And, FYI, rape kits go for anywhere between $500 and $1,200.
How do we know that Palin was the only mayor in Alaska to have this insane and hurtful policy? We know because the Alaska State Legislature passed a law to forbid this practice specifically targeting Palin's Wasilla. Evidence? you ask. Here at USA Today.
This makes me sick.
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