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Related: About this forumNew Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence'
New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence'
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.
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Pat Davis of ProgressNow New Mexico, a progressive nonprofit opposing the bill, called it "blatantly unconstitutional" on Thursday.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html
Additional DU OP with tons of comments here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014379134
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New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence' (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jan 2013
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Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)1. This would be from the Onion...
...right? Please say yes.
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)2. I sure hope so.
safeinOhio
(32,673 posts)3. Fetus in a jar
problem solved
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. So if someone gets shot
treating the wound would be tampering with evidence? Teh stupid...it burns.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)5. Under that insanity, so would be taking a shower. Troglodytes.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)6. Insanity.
And the WH expends its political capital to find common ground with this lunacy !!