Word: incest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comparatively few who seek abortions have strictly medical reasons, such as their own health or suspected congenital abnormality in the fetus. Rape and incest account for a negligible percentage of unwanted pregnancies. Women seek legal abortions for the familiar reasons: reluctance to interrupt career plans, lack of money, fear of losing personal freedom, uncertainty about their relationship with the man involved...
...Institute's recommended code. The measure allows abortion up to the 16th week if a board of doctors agrees that the pregnancy endangers the physical or emotional health of the woman, if there is suspicion of fetal abnormality, or if pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Since then, eleven other states, including California, have adopted variations of the recommended code...
Beside this terrible banality, Keneally's suggestion that family is another name for incest seems positively matter-of-fact. Further Keneally theories: an exceptional child is doomed to play Joan of Arc-martyr-to parents, who compulsively burn as witch that truthful spirit in the child that sees the beast in its elders and, worse, announces it. "Parents, for all their preaching and threats, turn out to be the children," the remarkable Barbara observes. This freedom to speculate, Keneally may be saying, is the only freedom...
Gloria Random does not need puzzles to approach the subject. The 17-year-old fugitive love child of James Leo (Midnight Cowboy) Herlihy's new novel finds that incest is purely and simply a bummer. Like her friends down at the crash pad, she handles problems with a jarring forthrightness...
...changes her name to Witch Gliz while on the ritual lam from Mom's suburban Detroit subdivision, learns by doing and then recording her doings in a breezy diary. Sex, dope, kindness, generosity and communal living are good things because they make her feel good. Fortunately, imminent incest gives off bad vibrations before the big clutch...