Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to decide what's "psychological" or "forcible" and what's not? The Secretary of State? Congress? The news media? The courts? Are women going to have to go to court to "prove" they've been victims of "psychological torture" or "forcible rape" in order to get Medicaid funding for abortions, or in the worst scenario, in order to get abortions...
...court system is already heavily stacked against the possibility of women and children receiving any kind of fair treatment in cases of rape and incest. Witness the much-publicized situation of Elizabeth Morgan, whose ex-husband, Eric Foretich, allegedly raped their infant daughter Hilary...
Medical testimony-of Foretich's abuse of a young daughter by another marriage was deemed not admissible as evidence. The judge thought there was "a fifty-fifty chance" that Foretich was guilty, and gave him unsupervised visitation rights. Defying a court order, Morgan hid her daughter away rather than return her to her father. Somehow Morgan, not her ex-husband, ended up in jail, without a trial, for more than two years...
...legal battle against sex discrimination has often pitted the backers of women's rights against paternalistic rules that protect -- and bar -- women from the workplace. The fight appears to have taken a new turn as a result of a major federal decision from the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
...union challenged the 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...