Lincoln County prosecutors dropped Medicaid fraud charges against a Nebraska woman who had a state-funded abortion last fall because the charges were “no longer appropriate.” Nebraska Medicaid pays for abortions in cases of rape or incest, but requires that victims report the incident to police. The woman told authorities that she had been raped in a park by a stranger when she was actually raped in a hotel room by a man she had met two days before. She did not tell police officers this because she feared they would not believe she had been raped.
“Our system still finds it difficult for women to be taken seriously especially when the rapist is well known to the victim” said Judith Cross, Nebraska’s chair of the state Commission on the Status of Women.
