By Alex Blaze
Cross-posted at Bilerico

It turns out that the reason why Sarah Palin opposed paying for rape kits with city money, instead sending the bill to the victims, might not be what we thought. Personally, I just thought that like most law-and-order nuts, she was simply sexist and thought that crimes against women just count less. It couldn’t have actually been the $14,000/year; Sarah Palin billed tax payers more just for her own food.

hekebolos at DailyKos suggests that it’s about what the emergency contraception that rape kits contain (from a May 2000 article on a law that passed that year specifically in response to the Palin administration’s refusal to pay for these kits):

The new bill would also make law enforcement agencies that are investigating a sexual assault responsible for the costs of testing victims for sexually transmitted diseases and emergency contraception.

More after the jump.

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