The Palin Rape Kit Story Revival: Police Function or Medical Care

A rehash of the story on Palin and funding of the rape kit for Wasilla is here.

One of the arguments is whether or not the kit was considered medical care or a function of the police department for investigative purposes.

PDS has a way of infiltrating arguments, thus logic gets destroyed.

Here is an example.

people speak as authorities and usually have an extremely limited fund of knowledge…its a typical left wing tactic also..

Well, I’m going to beg the indulgence of the good people here to go a bit off-topic and tell you, at some length, about rape kits.

I have a rape kit right here. Let’s look at it…

The first thing I notice is that its official name, printed right on the cover of the box, is “Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit.” Hmmm… nothing there about patient care or treatment. “Evidence Collection” sounds more like a police function. Let’s open it up and see what’s inside.

Hmmm. A number of paper bags and some instruction sheets. No bandages, no sutures, no antibiotics….

The poster James Macdonald (who admits moderating the McClatchy website) is trying to lay out the kit as an investigative collection kit.

However, in his attempt to do so, the truth comes out.

Step fifteen: Emergency Pregnancy Prevention. “Fill out all information requested on form. Give one copy to patient. Retain one copy for hospital records.” Yes, part of the rape kit is offering the so-called “morning after pill.” That’s contraception! We can’t have taxpayers paying for contraception! Contraception is wrong!

Contraception has nothing to do with evidence collection. There are agencies outside of the police department that offer the contraceptive so why have it in a rape kit that is for evidence collection?

Moreover, I want to know who pays for a rape kit when you have women staging a rape?

A woman police say lied about being raped by a Fort Richardson soldier in January is now accused of staging a phony kidnapping.