Indiana should not allow rapists to have any rights to visitation, much less extract support, from women whom they have raped & impregnated. That’s what Indiana law allows. Louisiana has set an example of how these laws play out. That this could happen is absurd & evil. IN law: 1/5

woman has sole custody of child born out of wedlock. I.C. 31-14-13-1. If rapist contests, Court determines custody based on child’s best int w/no presumption favoring either parent. Strangers (as in…

Last January I noted that, under Indiana law, a woman who is raped, impregnated, and gives birth to the child can be forced to allow the rapist visitation and even could lose custody and be forced to pay child support to the rapist. Louisiana, it appears, has laws of similar effect. 1/6

The woman, now 32, was allegedly raped at age 16 by a man nearly twice her age whom she had never previously met. One commentator said “to be forced to pay her rapist child support and legal fees and…

Elections affect rights. Indiana law protects Dad’s rights, even in rape. Woman who gives birth out of wedlock has sole custody. I.C. § 31-14-13-1. If contested, court determines custody based on child’s best interest w/no “presumption favoring either parent.” Factors considered? 1/6

Include “pattern of domestic/family violence by either parent.” I.C. § 31-14-13-2. (Strangers not pattern or dom/family violence. I.C. 35-31.5-2-78) Parent w/custody determines kid's upbringing, unless…

   Under Indiana law, biological parents are entitled to rights of visitation with their children. Absent marriage, once paternity is established, a biological father even may seek change of custody if he can convince the trial court that the mother is, in some way, unfit.

   Maybe I missed something in the statutes and the guidelines for visitation, but there is "no exception for rape." No—I do not use this phrase in the context of laws that relate to abortion. I use the phrase as to…

   U.S. Akin made a stir with his comments about what he called "legitimate rape."

   The gist of what he said: he had spoken with doctors who told him a woman’s body has mechanisms, if a woman is raped, to avoid pregnancy. Aside from the fact the claim is baseless in science, other aspects of his comments bothered me.

   He explained to the interviewer that in the case of rape, perhaps the rapist should be punished, but not the baby.

   First, rape is a crime. At one…