The State of Texas is currently demanding that rape victims pay for their own rape kits—and if they don't, they face ruined credit and debt collectors. An average rape kit can cost up to $1800. Embedded video from CNN Video The S...
Via Think Progress comes this shocking CNN report that Texas is charging women thousands of dollars for the rape kits they use at the hospital. Essentially, since these rape kits are part of the police investigation, the police are...
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault are rebutting the story that the state charges victims for rape kits. Local law enforcement is billed, then reimbursed by the state. [Feministe]
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Via Think Progress, this is absolutely disgusting and obscene. CNN reports that rape victims in Texas are being charged for their own rape kits, to the tune of well over $1,000 no less:
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A Houston paper...
