Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

What a Sensible Law!

In North Carolina, convicted rapists now have their parental rights terminated with regard to children resulting from their rapes.

(Of course, the law wouldn't've actually helped the woman in question, since her rapist still hadn't been convicted at the time he refused to give over his parental rights, but that's probably a problem that's unavoidable without completely ditching the presumption of innocence in rape cases.)

When we've finally built that Culture of Life I keep hearing about we'll look back and realize that most of the heavy lifting was done in small, simple steps like this rather than in a few sweeping high court rulings. Actually, we probably won't, humans being what we are, but it'll be true nonetheless.