2 This despite the fact that legally speaking one literally cannot rape one's wife since ‘rape’ is defined as forcible intercourse with a woman other than one's wife, and in the face of the fact that even up to the present a woman had virtually no option but to become someone's wife.

3 It is interesting, however, that while the Criminal Code contains provisions against infanticide, these are rarely invoked against a mother who takes the life of the child within three months following birth. She is simply assumed to be suffering from post-partum psychosis and in need of psychiatric treatment rather than punishment.

4 And by ‘right’ here, I mean ‘claim', such that my having the right entails that someone else has a duty to provide me with that to which I have the right, if I want it.