Abstract In 2015, Congress passed a law regarding victims who become pregnant from rape. Specifically, the new federal law offers funding incentives to encourage state legislatures to enact laws related to parental rights when rapists impregnate their victims. Since that time, and even prior, many states have been proposing and passing legislation on the topic. This article addresses the ways that such laws ignore the important constitutional rights of rape victims and how these laws create rather than prohibit parental rights for rapists by assuming, incorrectly, that parentage is caused by DNA alone. This article tracks the law in Massachusetts after an impregnated fourteen year-old rape victim was forced by the criminal court judge presiding over her rape case to participate in family court for 16 years with her attacker. The victim objected to the jurisdiction of the family court on the grounds that the criminal court judge had no authority to send her to family court and that the rapist had no parental rights to adjudicate in any court. She also argued that she had a constitutional right not to be forced by the government to participate in family court proceedings for one day, much less 16 years, with the man who raped her.

中文翻译：

---

强奸犯、父母权利和受害者经常被忽视的宪法权利：马萨诸塞州的一个重要案例研究

摘要 2015 年，国会通过了一项关于因强奸而怀孕的受害者的法律。具体而言，新的联邦法律提供资金激励措施，以鼓励州立法机构在强奸犯让受害者怀孕时颁布与父母权利相关的法律。从那时起，甚至在此之前，许多州一直在提议和通过有关该主题的立法。本文讨论了这些法律如何忽视强奸受害者的重要宪法权利，以及这些法律如何通过错误地假设父母身份仅由 DNA 引起来创造而不是禁止强奸犯的父母权利。这篇文章追踪了马萨诸塞州的法律，一名怀孕的 14 岁强奸受害者被负责强奸案的刑事法庭法官强迫与袭击者一起参加家庭法庭长达 16 年。受害人反对家庭法庭的管辖权，理由是刑事法庭法官无权将她送到家庭法庭，而且强奸犯没有父母在任何法庭进行裁决的权利。她还辩称，她享有宪法赋予的权利，不会被政府强迫与强奸她的男子一起参加家庭法庭诉讼的一天，更不用说 16 年了。