When the two-child limit came into effect in the UK on April 6 2017, it included a barbaric footnote. A special exemption – which quickly became known as the ' rape clause ' – where women must 'prove' their child had been conceived as a result of 'non-consensual sex' to avoid having their benefits cut. For women like Maria, who became pregnant with her third child after a sexual assault, the two-child policy and its rape clause has meant she has been repeatedly forced to recount the attack to