{"id":139078,"date":"2019-06-06T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=139078"},"modified":"2019-06-06T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:41:15","slug":"alabamas-draconian-abortion-law-made-one-unanticipated-demographic-happy-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/alabamas-draconian-abortion-law-made-one-unanticipated-demographic-happy-rapists.html","title":{"rendered":"Alabama’s draconian abortion law made one unanticipated demographic happy: rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama has been an outlier in the US for allowing rapists to assert parental rights — child custody, visitation, etc. —\u00a0over the offspring their assaults result in.<\/p>\n

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That particular bit of local charm slipped lawmakers’ minds when Alabama gleefully passed its new anti-abortion law, which provides no exception for cases of rape. The state legislature has since had to scramble to put some sort of provision into state law to deal with the presumed increased number of cases where women who are raped are forced to carry their baby to full term … and then potentially forced to associate with their rapists for the next couple of decades.<\/p>\n

Scramble they did, and now Alabama will prevent that from happening. Kind of. Sometimes. Maybe. Their new “Jessi\u2019s Law” only allows a court to terminate or restrict parental rights of rapists when there’s a conviction<\/em> for first degree<\/em> rape or incest.<\/p>\n

Given the dramatic underreporting of rape, and the low numbers of convictions even when reported, that dependency on conviction makes it a minor comfort indeed.<\/p>\n

And the limitation to first<\/em> degree rape means second degree sexual assaults — which includes\u00a0statutory rape — are excluded from the law. So when Mom’s skeevy boyfriend assaults and impregnates her 13-year-old daughter, he can still ask for parental rights for the baby (or, more likely, threaten<\/em> to do so to get them to drop any possible charges).<\/p>\n

Huzzah for family values!<\/p>\n

Do you want to know more?\u00a0<\/em>Alabama Banned Abortions. Then Its Lawmakers Remembered Rapists Can Get Parental Rights. \u2013 Mother Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And the state’s done the minimum amount to fix that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,715,348],"tags":[1749,1865],"class_list":["post-139078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-state","category-crime-punishment","category-women","tag-abortion","tag-alabama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/alabama-capitol-dome.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32211,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/women-are-people-too.html","url_meta":{"origin":139078,"position":0},"title":"Women are people, too","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Jan-13 5:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Unless, of course, they are pregnant. 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We don't need no stinking federal court rulings!\" Because state nullification worked so well last time.And for such (pardon me) bullshit rationales:The Alabama court ruled state bans on gay marriage aren't discriminatory since they ban both men and women from marrying people of the same sex, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":138881,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/the-end-of-marriage-in-alabama-not-really.html","url_meta":{"origin":139078,"position":4},"title":"The End of Marriage in Alabama (not really)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-May-19 12:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dropping most state marriage paperwork is a good thing for sketchy reasons.","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wedding-rings2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":29917,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/an-apology-that-misses-the-point.html","url_meta":{"origin":139078,"position":5},"title":"An apology that misses the point","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Aug-12 7:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"After a few days of \"I misspoke\" shilly-shallying, Rep. 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