Word: incest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workshop activities are as much anthropologic as choreographic. Influenced by the "structuralist" ideas of Claude Levi-Strauss, Halprin believes that a society's myths, or basic beliefs, are as fundamental to its form as its language. Even modern men are driven by such primal instincts as incest, murder, sacrifice and cannibalism, although such drives are almost entirely submerged by the character of urban life. By encouraging her audiences to act out their anxieties in terms of free-moving myths, Halprin is providing not only a therapeutic outlet but an artistic one as well. "The central idea of every evening...
...life, and only after surmounting forbidding legal obstacles. Since then, five states have liberalized their punitive 19th century abortion laws. They now permit therapeutic abortions to be performed if the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case if the mother has had German measles (rubella) within the first three months of pregnancy. California did not sanction this ground because Governor...
...births. That compares with about 660 legal abortions per 1,000 live births in Japan (where modern contraceptives such as the pill are illegal), and 85 per 1,000 in Sweden. Colorado's law does not spell out residence requirements, but legal formalities ensure that abortions after rape or incest will be performed only on residents, and Colorado General Hospital has decided not to abort out-of-state patients "except for fetal indications" ?meaning that the child is expected to be malformed...
...operation. No fewer than 1,777 of the abortions performed, or 83%, were on the ground that continued pregnancy would gravely impair the woman's mental health, and only 115 because of a threat to her physical health. There were 138 because of rape, and five because of incest. Only 25 operations involved out-of-state patients...
...Though the California law has since been liberalized, it permits abortions only in cases of rape, incest or clear danger to the mother's mental as well as physical health...