Word: incest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEANS OF EGYPT, MAINE: This week production begins on the movie version of Carolyn Chute's novel about incest and squalor in trailer-park Maine. It stars avatar-of-hip Kelly Lynch...
...Hyde Amendment, the 16-year- old constraint on the use of federal funds to finance abortions authored by Illinois Representative Henry Hyde. The law, which initially allowed federally funded abortions only if the mother's life was endangered, was expanded last , summer to include cases of rape and incest. Furthermore, the revised Hyde Amendment requires only that a woman "self-certify" that an abortion is necessary. So, Representative Nita Lowey said recently, "I'd tell my constituents, 'Send a letter. Say you were raped. Say it was incest. Say you have heart disease.' " Lowey admits such advice is "lousy public...
...speak out about their rape experiences. Take Back the Night isn't a personal gesture of reaffirming control over one's life, Roiphe contends, but rather a form of public group therapy. The speak-outs have more in common with TV talk shows that feature recovering alcoholics and incest survivors than with the efforts to end violence against women...
...abortionists usually do not devote a great deal of time to the "choice" that usually landed the woman in the middle of this circus, that being the choice to have sex. While there are cases of rape and incest, most abortions take place because someone neglected to take a pill or use a condom...
...unexpected setback for pro-abortion-rights forces in Congress, the House voted 255 to 178 to maintain the Hyde amendment -- the 16-year-old ban on Medicaid funding of abortions for poor women, except when the mother's life is jeopardized and in cases of rape or incest. The Senate could still revise the language...