NM Legislator: Charge women who have abortions resulting from rape with tampering with evidence

[cali]

A New Mexico Lawmaker Wants To Criminalize Post-Rape Abortions

A Republican legislator in New Mexico is seeking to force pregnant rape victims to carry the pregnancy to term, claiming the fetus could be used as "evidence" at trial.

Rep. Cathrynn Brown's bill would charge a rape victim who sought an abortion with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence," The Huffington Post reported Wednesday.


"Tampering with evidence consists of destroying, changing, hiding, placing or fabricating any physical evidence with intent to prevent the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of any person or to throw suspicion of the commission of a crime upon another," House Bill 206 reads.

"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," it adds.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-mexico-post-rape-abortion-bill-2013-1#ixzz2IufZpI4r

Fucking piece of shit. I wish her the very worst in all her endeavors and in her miserable life.

[joeybee12]

1. Just when you think these assholes can't stoop any lower...they surprise you...knr

[Initech]

9. They've officially stooped past the lowest point on earth at this point.

[joeybee12]

10. So low they'd get vertigo in a sewer! nt

[sakabatou]

18. They'll keep on digging even deeper.

[ck4829]

2. Wouldn't this also free the rapists if their victims had an abortion?

Rapist: "Well Judge, Cathrynn Brown passed this law saying that abortion is evidence tampering and my ALLEGED victim did get an abortion after I ALLEGEDLY raped her. Sooo, what are we going to do about that?"

If getting an abortion is evidence tampering, every person accused, on trial, or convicted of rape would jump at this.

[hlthe2b]

3. What is wrong with this woman?

Unbelievable. Ignorance beyond belief...

[appleannie1]

4. She should be forced to take care of all the "evidence" she values so highly.

[malthaussen]

5. What an outrage.

I suppose, by her "logic," if I am the victim of a gunshot wound and have the damage treated, I'm tampering with the evidence and guilty of a felony.

These people make me furious. It is so obvious that they will go to any extent to victimize women, especially women who are raped. Even on it's own "merits" (which really don't exist), this proposition makes no sense. Since when is a fetus evidence of rape? If a woman is raped and doesn't become pregnant, does that mean she wasn't raped? But wait, I thought if a woman was "legitimately" raped, she could "shut down" the pregnancy process, ergo if she is pregnant, she wasn't raped, and if she isn't pregnant, she wasn't raped. Yeah, I guess that really is the GOP message: there is no such thing as rape.

-- Mal

[srican69]

6. My granduncle once told me .. ( he is still around)

"you cannot design a system to be foolproof - because fools are ingenious"

I think you can take comfort in the fact that given that our democratic system is not in ANYWAY designed to be fool proof, such outcomes are always in the realm of possibility.

[Fresh_Start]

7. well in fact even after abortion the evidence can be used

DNA analysis of the tissue is still possible.
How about charging men who shower after rape with tampering with evidence?
That evidence goes down the drain?

[PotatoChip]

8. Rec'd in hope that this will get more exposure.

Though the story is horrifying. Wtf is the matter with this legislator?

[Ikonoklast]

15. Typical Republican POS and a coward.

Cathrynn Brown refused to tell citizens where she stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2012 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.

From: http://votesmart.org/candidate/110625/cathrynn-brown


The NRA loves her, though.

[watch the sky]

11. this exemplifies a total lack of compassion for the victim

so much for the GOP being "tough on crime". Cheap ploy to score a few cheap political points, one of the worst ideas I do believe I've ever heard.

[Oilwellian]

12. Hideous, especially coming from a woman n/t

[KamaAina]

13. "Evidence"?!

So the fetus isn't a person, but "evidence"??!!

A new low for the anti's. And the sponsor is a woman. For shame!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. She is is one sick individual.

I'd love to think she's going to be taken to task by her constituents, but I'm betting she represents a wingnut district that elected her for her whack-a-doodle views.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. +100

[GeorgeGist]

17. The Stupid is strong ...

In Cathrynn Brown.