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"   We&amp;#039;ve gotten so used to bone-headed comments and proposed laws about abortion coming from out-of-touch men that it&amp;#039;s a total shocker when they come from women. And trust us, this one just plain sucks. A Republican state representative from New Mexico, Cathrynn Brown, just proposed a bill that could make it a criminal offense to get an abortion after you were raped.  If passed, House Bill 206 would allow lawmakers to charge a rape victim with &amp;quot;tampering with evidence&amp;quot; if she became pregnant from the rape and had an abortion.  The bill says: &amp;quot;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.&amp;quot; So basically, if you became pregnant as a result of rape, you&amp;#039;d be expected to continue on with the pregnancy, just so you didn&amp;#039;t screw with the legal system. Because, you know, rape kits weren&amp;#039;t invented for a reason or anything.  Brown later released a statement saying that the goal of the law is to punish sex offenders\u2014especially those who try to pressure their victims into getting an abortion. But we fail to see how saddling a rape victim with an unwanted pregnancy is punishing a rapist. Not only are we disappointed in this law (which, thankfully probably won&amp;#039;t pass due to a Democratic majority in New Mexico), we&amp;#039;re really ticked that it came from a woman. Seriously, Cathrynn Brown? Want more from Korin? Follow her on Twitter @KorinMiller. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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