Jenny Teeson, center in white, of Andover, Minnesota, looks on as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signs a bill at the Capitol in St. Paul, on Thursday, May 2, 2019, repealing a Minnesota law that prevented prosecutors from filing sexual assault charges against people accused of raping their spouse. Teeson, testified before legislative committees earlier this year about how her now ex-husband drugged her and made a video of himself raping her while she was unconscious.
“No longer will this antiquated and shameful law be on our books,” Gov. Tim Walz said as he signed the bill into law on Thursday. “The concept of a pre-existing relationship defense should have never been part of our criminal statutes.” All 50 states had laws making marital rape a crime by 1993, whether as a result of the two preceding decades of activism by women’s rights groups or because of a pivotal court ruling. Nearly 9% of women and 0.8% of men have been raped by an intimate partner, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National surveys have placed the percentage of women raped within marriage between 10% and 14%.
One is Hale’s premise from the 1670s that marriage implies irrevocable consent and even property rights by the husband over his wife and her body. Those ideas have never truly disappeared, said Weisberg, author of a new reference book on domestic violence law. The 39-year-old from Andover, Minnesota, was going through a divorce in 2017 when she discovered a flash drive with videos taken by her husband. They showed him penetrating her with an object while she lay drugged and unconscious. In one, their 4-year-old lay next to her on the bed.
“She had to relive the trauma every time she shared her story,” Bigham told her colleagues during a debate in the Senate chamber this past week. “Her voice speaks loudly to those women who deserve justice. Let’s do the right thing. Let’s right this wrong.”
That was bunch of Republicans, making up that F, up law! They R' mostly self centered' individuals anyway!!
Any rights or protection for men? Being we are the most productive
Guess Ivana trump can bring charges against the Donald now,
I doubt many marriage rapes will be reported in Minnesotastan.
You mean same-sex crimes at random?
Does Muslims get an exemption?
Stay out of my bedroom look at yours
Are Minnesota & Michigan included?
its about time. Billions of men are raped every year by their wives. it stops now
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Fake News, as always. 350 years? More like 3500 years. 'Marital rape' is a recent concept.
Trump and Pence will block it because....
Finally 3
If someone says no and stop and someone keeps going, that’s rape no matter what
It you don't want to screw get a divorce. It's that simple.
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