PATERNITY RIGHTS FOR RAPIST?

Paternity Rights for Rapist

A recent law in South Dakota, we can only assume, was passed to protect the rights of the unborn child. The South Dakota Women's Health and Human Life Protection Act (HB1215) makes it illegal for women to have abortions unless their lives are in danger; regardless of whether they were raped or victims of incest. This same law also gives that rapist or molester, parental rights once he has served his time.
What lawmakers have failed to recognize is that by their efforts to protect the child, they have taken away the rights of women; especially those who have been victimized and traumatized, and given them to criminals. More specifically, men who attack and violate women are given rights they don't need or deserve. In the end, it is the child who will suffer most. Obviously, recidivism rates among rapist were not a consideration for these lawmakers. Additionally, the pathology of the sexual preditor that makes him so dangerous is often due to his need to exert emotional control and dominance. Is this not patholotrophic for the sexual preditor.
It's sad to say, but it's another case where the rights of everyone else supersedes the rights of the person who will be most affected by the entire situation, the victimized woman. It is unthinkable that in the year 2006, a male dominated world is still controlling women's lives as if they were property. This is a personal decision that can and should only be made by the person who has to live with that decison everyday and eventually die with that decision.
Of significant note, is the bills definition of fertilization which is defined as the period in time in which the egg and sperm are united. This definition leaves questions regarding the legality of emergency contraception. Based on the physiology of the reproductive systm, an ovulating women may in fact be pregnant at the 24 hour mark. Does this mean that emergency contraception would not be an alternative for the rape victim?
Lawmakers argue on the grounds that they are advocates in defense of the innocent victims who cannot speak for themselves, the unborn fetus. However, I pose this question. Who are the advocates for the original victims, the women who suffer the humilitation and physical burden of the most emotionally devastating vicious crime? It should be a crime against humanity to make such a law that does not give a victim of a sex crime the freedom of choice.