Okay, well, not just Arizona.  But we are behind Florida (FLORIDA) on this one.

Turns out, in some states (including ours) women who have a child as the result of rape have a rough time winning full custody of their children. As the Daily Show’s Samantha Bee puts it, if you have a child as a result of rape you might have to meet your rapist in a Denny’s parking lot every Saturday to hand off your child. To your rapist. That’s not okay.

From Jezebel:

You’d think legislation to guarantee women who have been raped full custody of the children born of those rapes would be pretty easy to pass right? Well, as Samantha Bee learned on The Daily Show Wednesday night, not so much.

Bee spoke with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Shauna Prewitt, an advocate for women to have the right to full custody of their children without going through a legal battle for them, an issue some states have prevented but a startlingly large number of others have not. Wasserman Schultz’s Rape Survivor Child Custody Act had bipartisan support, but as Bee frustratingly found out, the original bill didn’t pass because it “actually spends money” — $5 million a year for five years, to be specific.


Where are my emotional support baby chickens?

This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2015.

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7 replies on “Samantha Bee Tells Arizona to Get its Shit Together When it Comes to Rapists and Custody”

  1. Arizona can’t get anything together, unless it’s a tax break for the wealthy or removing health care for the poor.

  2. I know this is the Daily Show and there is comedy involved, but once again, we get to see how women are treated across this country. Seriously? Arizona – get your s$%t together! Women who choose to give birth to a child conceived from rape are already in a fragile place, but to have to share custody with the subhuman that did this to them is absolutely mind boggling,

  3. For gods sake, no pregnancy conceived by rape should continue. Half the DNA is seriously defective.

  6. I will not blame a woman for keeping a child conceived through rape if that is her choice. I would never allow the sperm inserter custody. He is not worthy of being called a donator.

  7. I can see the next Far Right Bumper Stickers now. “Rape Lesbians for Jesus”. “Rape to Protect Family Values”. “It’s Not Rape If There is Conception: Family First”. “If god Did Not Rape Mary There is No Salvation”.

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