Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raped child. Why are "incest" and "sexual abuse" always in categories separate from "rape"? "Incest" is a noun, not a verb; there's no such thing as "to incest," and the victim and agent of incest are indistinguishable "committers of incest." "Committing incest" in our language is conceived as merely a violation of the accepted law and morality, not of the privacy of a woman's or child's body...
...less famous recent case, a Boston judge took complete custody rights away from Virginia LaLonde, whose only crime seems to be the failure to convince the courts that her ex-husband raped their daughter. The judge found the LaLonde child, a 12-year-old, to be too much under the influence of her mother. Her mother can no longer see her, and her father, the same man the girl called a rapist a few years ago, is now her sole guardian...
...political leaders can count for a lot, too. That's why we need politicians who advocate abortion rights and public funding of abortions for all women, not just rape victims. No woman should be forced to have a child because she could not prove she was the victim of rape. No woman should be punished for the simple wish to protect the privacy of her own body--a privacy violated by rape, incestuous rape, and the restriction of abortion...
...blanket ban, charging a violation of federal discrimination laws. But the Seventh Circuit, siding with the company, two weeks ago concluded that the workers had failed to show that the health hazard could be eliminated by anything less than the sweeping measure in question. Said the court: "The unborn child has no opportunity to avoid this grave danger, but bears the definite risk of suffering permanent consequences...
...women are told that abortion causes sterility and breast cancer and they're also told in a 'kind and gentle' way not to kill their unborn child," said Andrew Sabl '90, one of the protest organizers...