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Monday, February 09, 2015

ADVOCATES CALL FOR BILL TO REVOKE PARENTAL RIGHTS OF MEN ACCUSED OF CONCEIVING CHILD THROUGH RAPE

ANNAPOLIS — A state Senate committee heard testimony Thursday for and against a bill that would prevent accused rapists from claiming parental rights over children conceived during an alleged sexual assault.

Under the Rape Survivor Family Protection Act, sponsored by state Senator Jamie Raskin, D-Montgomery, a court could declare that a man is not the legal father of a child he conceived from an alleged rape.

Maryland law currently allows a man accused of fathering a child through rape to weigh in on custody and adoption decisions, including potentially preventing the mother from putting that child up for adoption, proponents of the bill said.

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3 comments:

  1. This makes way too much sense to pass. Even fathers who have molested children still have parental visitation even if the child has to be brought to prison for the visit. This world is insane.

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  2. Criminals shouldn't have rights!

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