Word: incest
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...teller suing a TV station for libel after it falsely reported that he was a robbery suspect, and a retarded woman's mother petitioning the court to have her daughter sterilized. Among The Judge's tough assignments: a teenage brother and sister accused by their younger sister of committing incest...
Advocates of Question 1 note that the proposal would not allow the legislature to prohibit abortion in cases in which the woman's life is in danger. That is the most narrow exemption one could conceive. Meanwhile, victims of rape and incest would be forced to carry their pregnancies to term. Question 1 is not a limited measure; it is a potentially sweeping assault on abortion rights in Massachusetts...
Proposition 1 provides no exceptions for rape or incest victims, however it miraculously and magnanimously allows abortions "required to prevent the death of the mother." Note the use of the word mother instead of pregnant woman. Whose mother? This is not neutral language. Even though the proposed amendment was not written to decide the question of when life begins, the assumption here is that abortion means a mother killing her baby, not a woman terminating her pregnancy...
...vote upholds Roe v. Wade; just one more anti-choice Supreme Court Justice would be enough to overturn it. If, when, and as soon as this happens, passage of Question 1 will give the Massachusetts Legislature the power to outlaw abortion--even in the case of rape and incest victims and women with serious health problems...
...time thinking about unpleasant people. The central character in Live Flesh, Rendell's 31st book of fiction in 22 years, is a rapist, mutilator and murderer. A Dark-Adapted Eye, Rendell's first under a new pen name, Barbara Vine, imagines a murder preceded by intimations of incest, infanticide and homosexual child molestation, all within the bosom of an apparently conventional and loving clan...