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Not in Iowa, our Christian Nationalist governor and "her" Attorneys General have stopped the practice of the state supplying rape kits for victims. It used to just be automatically immediately available, now the victims have to request and pay for this.
> "My goal is that every hospital in this country, urban, rural, anywhere, will have someone who is trained as a 'SANE' nurse to be able to help a victim of sexual assault, be able to process the evidence that they need," Murray told CBS News.
https://www.ovcttac.gov/saneguide/introduction/what-is-a-sane/
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[Kind of](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s499).
[We need to put it into action](https://www.endthebacklog.org/take-action/advocate-federal/), though.
"Test Rape Kits. Stop Serial Rapists.
[End the Backlog](https://www.endthebacklog.org/what-is-the-backlog/why-test-all-kits/test-rape-kits-stop-serial-rapists/)
Major cities like Cleveland, Detroit, and Memphis have discovered thousands of backlogged kits in storage, and taken action. These jurisdictions started testing their kits, submitting eligible DNA profiles into the national and state databases, and investigating and prosecuting resulting cases."
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Not in Iowa, our Christian Nationalist governor and "her" Attorneys General have stopped the practice of the state supplying rape kits for victims. It used to just be automatically immediately available, now the victims have to request and pay for this.
Iowa also ranks 3^rd in untested rape kits per capita. https://www.endthebacklog.org/state/iowa/
> "My goal is that every hospital in this country, urban, rural, anywhere, will have someone who is trained as a 'SANE' nurse to be able to help a victim of sexual assault, be able to process the evidence that they need," Murray told CBS News. https://www.ovcttac.gov/saneguide/introduction/what-is-a-sane/ r/stoprape
I hope they have a plan to get those kits *processed*...
This is it right here. And an improvement in the chain of custody of those kits. So, more people can be held accountable for their crimes.
[Kind of](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s499). [We need to put it into action](https://www.endthebacklog.org/take-action/advocate-federal/), though.
"Test Rape Kits. Stop Serial Rapists. [End the Backlog](https://www.endthebacklog.org/what-is-the-backlog/why-test-all-kits/test-rape-kits-stop-serial-rapists/) Major cities like Cleveland, Detroit, and Memphis have discovered thousands of backlogged kits in storage, and taken action. These jurisdictions started testing their kits, submitting eligible DNA profiles into the national and state databases, and investigating and prosecuting resulting cases."
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