As Texas Governor Greg Abbott Commits To ‘Eliminating Rapists' The State Has More Than 5000 Untested Rape Kits

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

September 14, 2021

Texas’ new abortion law — which bans abortions at about six weeks — has women’s rights advocates up in arms for a number of reasons, not least because it makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

When asked why rape and incest victims weren’t exempt from the new law Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the state would just work harder to combat the crimes. “Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets,” Abbott said last week.

Now advocates are asking how Texas will accomplish that feat, especially when it has more than 5,000 rape kits still untested, languishing on shelves around the state? And when there have been as many as 18,000 incidents of rape in the state in a year?

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