Word: incest
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True to the spirit of the commandment, if not the letter, "Decalogue 4"--"Honor thy father and thy mother"--is a provocative look at incest. A motherless girl suspects that her father is not actually her father and draws him into a game of deceit to expose the unacknowledged desire that lies between them. But is he really not her father? And if he were her father, would that change the feelings that they have for each other? Forbidden desire clashes with the expectations that each family member holds to another. From the opening water-fight between father and daughter...
...principles collide here: reverence for life vs. the precept that the purpose of a human life should be to reduce suffering; any act that increases the total of human suffering is immoral, and any act that reduces suffering is moral. By those criteria, some births-those that result from incest or rape, or threaten the mother's life-would increase suffering, and the abortions that prevent them are, sadly, excusable...
...divided House Appropriations Committee late last night voted to let states refuse to spend federal funds on abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Supporters of the controversial measure proposed by Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) said it is a step towards restoring states' rights. But White House spokesman Mike McCurry called it "a back alley approach to taking away a woman's right to choose...
...newsgroup is known on the Internet for its explicit and graphic descriptions of sex acts, such as incest, rape and torture. But Baker's stories were extreme even for the newsgroup, according to readers who discussed the case in about 300 posts on that newsgroup alone...
...pony somewhere, and Stuart Stevens' new novel may be it. Scorched Earth (Atlantic; 276 pages; $21) is a funny, eye-rolling, knee-walking story of an incestuous Senate campaign in one of those nameless Southern states -- somewhere between South Carolina and Georgia, perhaps -- that turn up in political novels. Incest is not a metaphor here. When political consultant Matt Bonney engineers the testimony of three black drag queens who say they have had sex with Congressman Luke Bonney, who is the opponent of Matt's candidate and also happens to be Matt's brother, Luke makes it known that...