This one goes under “issues I would have thought had been addressed before now.” Sen. Charbonneau’s SB 190 allows a rape victim to file a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship between the rapist and a child that resulted from the rape. The rape victim has to show the court by clear and convincing evidence that the child was conceived as a result of the rape and (by a preponderance of the evidence, I guess) that terminating the parent-child would be in the best interest of the child.
The fact that the child was conceived because of the rape is designated as setting forth a prima facie case that termination of the relationship is in the best interest of the child; but, that could (theoretically) be rebutted by the rapist.
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