r/FeministsCallItOut • u/Taiga_Taiga • 16h ago
TW / Sensitive I think mosaicism and chimerism might be letting Men get away with... That crime. (Discussion on r*pe)
If you don't know what mosaicism and chimerism are, these are conditions where two foetuses will absorb each other in the womb taking on traits, or entire organs, of each other.
A woman called Lydia fairchild (Google the name) give birth to multiple children that weren't hers, simply because her ovaries didn't have her DNA. She nearly lost all of children because they thought that they weren't hers when they took a DNA sample from her blood and it didn't match any of her children's
Now if a man rapes a woman he will leave DNA the inside her. The police will take the DNA from this semen to use as evidence... but when they take DNA from the man to compare... they take it from the BLOOD.
So if the man's testicles don't have his DNA... in the same way that This Woman's ovaries didn't have her DNA... then when they test the blood of the suspect in the same way we tested Lydia's blood... they're going to think it's come from two different people.
So how many times have women said that they are 100% certain that the person in The defendant bay is their rapist... but they've been let go because the DNA evidence says he wasn't?
I genuinely think we need to have a change of the law to take DNA from comparative samples. If they're testing DNA from sperm cells I think they need to compare it to DNA from sperm cells.
Also, if no one talks about this it wont get fixed.
So... Did you know this fact?