Republican bill in Montana may give rapists the right to co-parent the children of their victims.

[Celerity]

Link to tweet

[octoberlib]

1. JFC. Can you imagine?

[brooklynite]

20. Well, there you go. Biblically sound.....

[elias7]

2. If they have subsequently formed a parental relationship with the child

Muddy waters...

[Celerity]

3. I can think of all manner of hellscapes where the threshold would be argued by the rapist as grounds

[mantis49]

9. I don't know about MN,

but in IL there is the possibility of marital rape charges.

That would be one way of forming parental relationship.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Is this basically a license to rape?

Then if it is, the Rapist should then be court ordered to pay Child Support.

[sagesnow]

5. Despicable Evil GOP n/t

[MyOwnPeace]

6. In a country......

where someone like Donald Trump could become president, I can see how somebody may think this is a good idea.......

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Only about 30 states terminate parental rights in the event of rape, and most require conviction to

do so.

[Celerity]

12. jfc, I had NO idea! I am reading now on it, it is a nightmare!!!

My rapist fought for custody of my daughter. States can't keep survivors tied to rapists.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/06/19/abortion-laws-bans-rape-parental-rights-column/1432450001/

I was Louisiana's first special assistant on women's policy, advising the governor and presenting the governor's proclamation for domestic violence awareness month. Then I was raped. It was 2003.

After I became pregnant as a result of the attack, I did not want to think of myself as a victim. I chose to carry my pregnancy to term. It gave me hope that I was not completely broken and destroyed. But it was my personal decision to have my daughter and raise her.

I did not expect to feel the horror and shock that came years later, in 2010, when my rapist tried to claim custody of my child.

My rapist was never convicted for what he did to me. When the day came that I was served with court papers on his behalf, I was terrified of the danger this posed for my child, who had no idea what I would have to go through to protect her.

Rape victims who gave birth to their attackers' children open up on the outrageous reality of CO-PARENTING with the sex predators who ruined their lives



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8514777/Rape-victims-fighting-change-laws-allowing-rapists-parental-rights-children.html

[niyad]

13. Would you consider cross-posting this important piece in Women's Rights and Issues?

TIA

[Celerity]

14. sure

[Celerity]

16. done

[niyad]

22. Thank you so much.

[Celerity]

23. yw!

[smirkymonkey]

26. This just enrages me!

I have no words right now.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Dear rapists : Congratulations! You now get to pick the mother of your child!!

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Absurd.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Rape as a successful reproductions strategy...

This is just sick. And this same party wants to outlaw abortion in all cases, including rape. So they want to make rape a successful strategy for humans to pass their genes on. SICK!

[niyad]

15. Thank you for this important information. Would you consider cross-posting in Women's Rights

And Issues? TIA

The War On Women continues in all its ugly hatefulness.

[Celerity]

19. here is the link

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113812007

[niyad]

17. The next time ?I hear some puke whining, "think of the children" and "family values", I might

just shove this bill, and the others like it, down their f'n throats.

[colsohlibgal]

18. Unbelievable

I was hoping this was satire from the Onion.

A growing segment of people have gone crazy.

[spanone]

21. What the fuck has happened to America?

[roamer65]

28. Fascism.

[niyad]

24. Dear Goddess, it was a woman who sponsored this bill.

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[BusyBeingBest]

25. Sounds like Republican rapists writing laws for themselves or their family members.

[roamer65]

27. That is fucking sick.