Yesterday, in a case called Vega v. Tekoh, the United States Supreme Court held that a criminal defendant who gives an incriminating statement under interrogation without being informed of his constitutional right to remain silent, and who is later acquitted, may not recover damages under 42 USC §1983, a civil-rights statute, from the government official who elicited the statement. Today the Supreme Court expressed a different view on the rights of criminals when it held that the United States Constitution does not prohibit the states from declaring that the right of a rapist to become a father outweighs the right of a rape victim not to become a mother - actually, the court held that a rape victim has no constitutional right not to become a mother against her will.