Shauna Prewitt, writing for CNN on the appalling state of laws restricting a rapist’s custody rights:
It would not be long before I would learn firsthand that in the vast majority of states – 31 – men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. When no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights, a woman may feel forced to bargain away her legal rights to a criminal trial in exchange for the rapist dropping the bid to have access to her child.
My thanks to Nahida, The Fatal Feminist, for the link.