Word: assaultive
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...with daily reminders of their pain hurts their attempts to cope with the outside world. But to tell a rape victim who has had an abortion that she has committed a “crime” is positively cruel. Sarah Rankin, the director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response agrees, saying “regardless of the abortion debate, any media that promotes guilt for the choices rape survivors make is potentially traumatizing and damaging...
...most recent rankings, Morgan Quitno Press analyzed 2005 crime rate statistics in six basic categories—murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft—according to the president of the firm, Scott Morgan. Each type of crime was weighed equally in the final analysis. The statistics are from the F.B.I.’s annual Uniform Crime Report...
...insulting to women and show that Webb is sexist. Democrats, meanwhile, have been questioning why Allen won't release records of his divorce or his application to the Virginia Bar, which they suggest (without citing any evidence) might reveal he was arrested in the 1970's for an assault. Allen aides say the accusations are baseless, and that the only trouble he had with the law at the time concerned unpaid parking tickets...
...undergraduate facing charges of domestic assault appeared before a judge yesterday, and the next pretrial conference in his case was set for December...
...Taliban religious school in the country's volatile North West Frontier Province has set off a flurry of protest in Pakistan, and threatens to stoke the fires of local insurgency against the central government. It has also raised questions about the target and authors of the assault...