spousal rape

Bill in the Bahamas Attempts to Outlaw Spousal Rape

by Cara August 22, 2009

Until the 1970s, spousal rape (or marital rape) was legal in most of the United States. It wasn’t until 1993 that the last U.S. state (North Carolina) made spousal rape a crime, and there are still numerous states that treat spousal rape as a lesser crime than rape committed by anyone else. Given this history [...]

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