Word: incest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knowing that for one night during the year, something can be done to eradicate the darkness--that there is safety amidst a crowd of women who otherwise may have no connection with one another. It's the knowledge that there are women who have been survivors of incest, sexual abuse, violence--and have been strong enough to emerge victorious from it and share their experiences with others...
Within hours of that explosion, the Administration affirmed the policy that had so exercised the President, a Health and Human Services Department order directing the states to help pay for abortions for low-income women in cases of rape or incest. The states, including many that finance abortions liberally, are in an uproar over it. They contend that the Federal Government should only rarely dictate rules to the states and that serious consultation should take place when such mandates are considered -- as one of the President's own Executive Orders directs. Beyond the absence of dialogue -- HHS's bolt came...
...supporting a dramatic exception to Clinton's philosophy is a tale of bureaucratic intrigue, complete with bitter recriminations between the White House and HHS. The tale began late on Dec. 23. Congress had earlier allowed for the possibility of federally funded abortions in the cases of rape and incest, an expansion of its long-standing mandate to pay when the mother's life is endangered. After dawdling for months, HHS decided that the new law meant states must fund such abortions or risk losing their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration lawyers dispute. As procedure dictates, a draft directive...
...shirts, exhibited yesterday and Wednesday, were designed by victims of such abuse and were color coded for different crimes, including rape, incest and domestic violence...
...sacrificed adults, infants or fetuses and no reputable eyewitnesses. Lorraine Stanek, a Connecticut rehabilitation counselor for trauma survivors, also stresses the lack of evidence. "If you look at the alleged number of deaths that would be accounted for," she says, "there should be bodies in all our backyards." Still, incest-survivor groups are inundated with these claims. Monarch Resources, a California referral service for survivors, is said to receive more than 5,000 calls annually from people who believe they have been victims of satanic abuse. Alleged ritual abuse is also involved in about 16% of the calls to Philadelphia...