Word: incest
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...activists were applauding an even more stunning victory: the Louisiana legislature gave final approval to the nation's most restrictive abortion law. The bill would make abortion a punishable criminal act unless the life of the mother was at stake. It allows no exception for victims of rape or incest...
...Louisiana bill and the court's rulings bring to a head the two fierce battles fought this past year: the pro-life movement's push to deny abortion to all pregnant women, even victims of rape and incest; and the pro-choice movement's effort to strike down parental-involvement laws as back-door ways to restrict abortion that do nothing to improve communication between parent and child...
...deal with rape and incest and parental involvement are so-called wedge issues, a way for each side in the abortion debate to prove the unreasonableness of the other side. Even those who strongly favor a woman's right to choose find themselves troubled by the notion of a girl's right to choose, so parental consent or notification has been a comparatively easy sell: 33 states have passed such laws. By forcing the pro-choice movement to challenge this trend, the pro-life movement has been able to paint its opponents as antifamily, bent on weakening the bond between...
...this seems extreme, the same is true -- but with the sides reversed -- on the equally emotional issue of what to do about a child conceived in the violence of rape or incest. The pro-life movement brooks no exception to the absolute position that all abortions, except those to save the life of the mother, are wrong, even ones intended to terminate the progeny of a rapist. Yet this stance may be their undoing. Louisiana's Governor Buddy Roemer, a self-described "right-to-lifer," has promised to veto the just-passed antiabortion bill because it makes no exceptions...
...labeling but not censorship, talks of 14 million children "at risk" and in need of counseling thanks to the "graphic brutality marketed to these kids through music and television." Lawmakers in 19 states went further; they considered proposing warning labels for any song dealing with such topics as drugs, incest, murder and suicide, which would conceivably outlaw depraved works like I Get a Kick Out of You, Die Walkure, Frankie and Johnny and Tosca. The music industry quickly forestalled such legislation by decreeing that record companies will decide which material is controversial and alert consumers with a label that reads...