Immediate respect for your kinja name.

Perinatal hospice care:

you’re right, and rape is endemic on reservations. IIRC native women live with some of the highest sexual assault rates in the country.

And they don't just have to drive for hours. They have to drive for hours without showering, washing their hands, or even using the bathroom if they want to preserve the evidence.

Reminds me of the most recent Last Week Tonight. John Oliver talks about lead poisoning and how horrific everyone thinks poisoning children is, including members of Congress, but that nothing is actually ever done about it. No one is walking the walk. Same in this case.

If the goal of the news today is to make me want to just go home and cuddle a dog and kitties then mission fucking accomplished because seriously everything is awful today.

I had no idea - I just assumed that all nurses knew how to do a proper rape kit, or, at the very least, all hospitals had at least a few on staff who had special training. It had never occurred to me that you can’t just show up at any hospital. What another awful layer added to the clusterfuck of assault.

So maybe our culture doesn’t really consider rape to be that horrific a crime. :(

A) You spelled it wrong. It is ruralhome.org

Once again, I am floored about how our culture considers rape to be one of the most horrific of crimes, yet when it actually comes up in real life we try to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t happen or is actually important.

people don’t realize that you cant just go into any hospital and get a rape kit done. theoretically you can, but as a victims advocate i can tell you kits done by non- SANE nurses are brutal and the chances of the DR/nurse fucking it up are very high, plus who knows how they will do testifying in court. EVERY hospital…

...and why shouldn’t we care about rural white people?

Unfortunate that in three of these states I believe there’s a significant population living on reservations, which are more often than not underserved and share emergency and legal services with several surrounding communities/counties. I’d like to see those numbers—no doubt they’re both staggering and underreported.

but like “why didn’t she get a rape kit if she was *really* raped?”

I like knowing who the Piece of Shit of the Day award goes to before 9am; thanks Jez!

Thats just it, for crazy conspiracy theorists there’s often a sense of relief at the notion of some shadowy group in control of the things that happen.

The (darkly) hilarious part is that the Sandy Hook truthers can imaging a world where the EEEVIL GUBBERMINT is full of mustache twirling villains happy to make up a bunch of fake kids to pull a massive fake flag, but don’t have the brains to realize a government that evil could also just ... shoot the kids. It’s a…

I think it’s both plus a desperate desire to believe that we can’t possibly live in a world where 20 kindergarteners are murdered for no reason.

Mills was accused of approaching a sister of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Victoria Soto during a charity race in November and angrily claiming the shootings never took place.

Well you can understand his claims given how all guns everywhere were banned as a result of Sandy Hook.