Summary: Rape and pregnancy became explosive issues during the last U.S. election. And the statistics that emerged were startling. It's estimated that about 32,000 women become pregnant as a result of rape in the United States each year. About a third of those women choose to keep the babies. Whatever the emotional cost of that decision, many women face a further blow. Rapists in the U-S may use the constitutionally protected right of a biological father to demand access to their child. And that begs the question ... how vulnerable are women in Canada?
