Originally Posted by Willravel

TB pills don't pose a risk to a potentially viable fetus. Rape kits usually include the morning after pill. Considering her religious adherence to her pro-life position, even being against abortion in the case of rape or incest, it's not unreasonable to think that this move may have been motivated by her want to impose her morality on her constituents. I mean I could be wrong, but it seems like 2 + 2 = 4 in this case.

Originally Posted by The_Dunedan

She seems somewhat disinclined to enforce said morality, actually. She refused to sign Alaska's anti-gay-marriage law when it hit her desk due to its' unconstitutionality. Everyone's freaking out about how she's supposedly some kind of religious fascist, but I've seen no evidence of this and her veto of the gay-marriage bill seems to put the lie to the stereotype. Was this an asinine move? If move it was, sure. However, this seems to be a policy which significantly predates her mayoral tenure, not one which she initiated. So this then moves from a "sin of action" to a "sin of inaction" at most, and considering that the Chief Of Police supported the policy it may have been out of Palin's hands. Does anyone have a source on where such a policy decision would have had to come from according to AK law? Because in some jurisdictions the Top Cop has the last word on such things while in others such a decision might be made by the Mayor, any one of a number of Commissioners or other functionaries, or even by an anonymous pencil-pusher (Hey, that's how ATF does things) with no accountability at all.