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Marital Rape: A Hidden Injustice

Posted Tue, 03/16/2010 - 12:00pm by STSM

In this month's STSM Volunteer Voice, the monthly newsletter which highlights our volunteer program, Anna Walton, a dedicated STSM volunteer advocate and USC student, wrote the following article in response to an experience she had on a recent hospital call.

Marital Rape: A Hidden Injustice, by Anna Walton

"The husband cannot be guilty of rape . . . for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract, the wife [has] given up herself in this kind unto her husband, which she cannot retract."
-English jurist Matthew Hale (18th century common law)

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