{"id":1172,"date":"2013-01-25T03:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T03:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2013-01-25T03:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T03:54:20","slug":"abortion-after-rape-tampering-with-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/01\/25\/abortion-after-rape-tampering-with-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion after rape = tampering with evidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you or someone you love is in New Mexico.\u00a0 Now imagine that a rape occurs. Now imagine the horror when you&#8217;re notified that you do not have the option of an abortion because you could be &#8220;tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/Sessions\/13%20Regular\/bills\/house\/HB0206.pdf\" target=\"_hplink\">House Bill 206<\/a>, introduced by state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for &#8220;tampering with evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTampering 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,&#8221; the bill says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you were to &#8220;tamper&#8221; with that evidence you could wind up in prison for three years. Luckily&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bill is unlikely to pass, as Democrats have a majority in both chambers of New Mexico&#8217;s state legislature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/24\/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Imagine you or someone you love is in New Mexico.\u00a0 Now imagine that a rape occurs. Now imagine the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}