As mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic exams. How can a woman have such a suspicious and misogynist view of women reporting a sexual assault?
It isn't that the cost of swabs, specimen containers, and medical tests were breaking the Wasilla budget—it came to just a few thousand dollars—when Palin pushed through a tax increase to fund the $14.7 million Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex.
More likely, Palin's extreme religious worldview has shaped her policy decisions. She is adamantly opposed to abortion, and victims of sexual assault are typically offered the "day after" emergency contraception pill—which the anti-choice zealots equate to abortion. So, helping a traumatized woman, gathering evidence to catch a sexual predator, and safeguarding her community take a back seat to her personal religious opinions.
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