Related for Chullin 22:3
וכי תימא מאי נפקא לן מינה הא אין גורל קובע לעזאזל אלא בדבר הראוי לשם
Surely it has been taught: The lot cannot determine [the goat] for Azazel unless is fit to be for the Lord!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In other words, though only one of the goats was offered as the sacrifice to the Lord, it was necessary for both goats to be such as might have been sacrificed to the Lord; it follows therefore that neither goat might be trefah.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Tosefta Ketubot
If she were pregnant and they said to her: "What is the nature of this foetus?", [and she said:] "It is from Ploni the kohen"—Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Eliezer say: She is believed since this is testimony that a woman is fit for. Rabbi Yehoshua says: She is not believed. Rabbi Yehoshua said to them: Do you not agree that, regarding a captive woman who was captured among the Gentiles, who has witnesses that she were captured, and she says "I am pure" that she is not believed!? They said to him: No! You would say this with a captive woman who has witnesses [that she was captured], can you say it about this one who has no witnesses [that she had a child with this man]!? He said to them: But what greater testimony is there than this, that her womb is between her teeth!? He said to them: There is no guardian for illicit sexual relations [i.e. women aren't expected to check the lineage of their sexual partners, so we have no idea if the father of the foetus is in fact pasul]. When does this apply [that a woman's testimony can be believed]? For testimony about her body [i.e. whether she can go onto marry a kohen or not], but with the child everyone agrees that he is a shetuki [a genealogical blemish belonging to someone whose father is unknown].
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