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 | | Subject: New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence' Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:31 am | |
| You have GOT to be kidding me. . . . . - Quote :
- New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence'
Posted: 01/24/2013 10:21 am EST | Updated: 01/25/2013 12:31 am EST
A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial.
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.
Third-degree felonies in New Mexico carry a sentence of up to three years in prison.
Pat Davis of ProgressNow New Mexico, a progressive nonprofit opposing the bill, called it "blatantly unconstitutional" on Thursday.
“The bill turns victims of rape and incest into felons and forces them to become incubators of evidence for the state,” he said. “According to Republican philosophy, victims who are ‘legitimately raped’ will now have to carry the fetus to term in order to prove their case.“
The bill is unlikely to pass, as Democrats have a majority in both chambers of New Mexico's state legislature.
UPDATE: 12:25 p.m. -- Brown said in a statement Thursday that she introduced the bill with the goal of punishing the person who commits incest or rape and then procures or facilitates an abortion to destroy the evidence of the crime.
“New Mexico needs to strengthen its laws to deter sex offenders,” said Brown. “By adding this law in New Mexico, we can help to protect women across our state.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html | |
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| | Subject: Re: New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence' Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:36 am | |
| I think the Repugnicant party is self-destructing all around us. Eventually most Americans will wake up to the fact of their Medieval mindset and abandon them.
Or, we will have to wage open warfare against a Taliban clone in this country. | |
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CeCe
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| | Subject: Re: New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence' Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:58 am | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence' Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:05 pm | |
| Wow. Just...wow. Now she's claiming that the intent is to make it a crime for the rapist to coerce the victim to get an abortion. | |
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Nystyle709
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| | Subject: Re: New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence' Sat Jan 26, 2013 2:23 pm | |
| Oh dear. New Mexico is supposed to be a blue state. Who let that chick in the House? | |
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