Word: incest
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...Pelican”—a disturbing story about a mother who abuses her children—includes difficult subjects like matricide and incest. The audience surrounds the stage on all sides, according to co-producer Xienwei Ngiam ’07, to heighten the sense of emotional dead-end in which the characters find themselves...
...There was all kinds of outcry about a law that goes so far. ?Most polls show that between 70 and 80% of the public support access to safe and legal abortion in at least the case of rape and incest,? says Kate Looby, the state director of Planned Parenthood. Indeed, some abortion foes worried that the bill could do more harm than good, galvanizing abortion rights groups, alienating voters whose views are more mixed, and even prompting the Supreme Court to throw out the law, and fortify Roe in the process...
...risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions in the case of rape or incest, that are favored even by the ?pro-life President? in the White House...
...what about cases of rape and incest, where there is overwhelming public support for allowing abortion as an option? Here the lawmakers admit that they carved out a little gray area. Hunt notes that the bill forbids doctors from prescribing any drug or doing any procedure on a pregnant woman ?with the specific intent? of ending a pregnancy. It also protects the right of women to use ? a contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing...
...Looby counters. ?They understand that this is a problem for the public, so they had to come up with a way to get around that and this is their attempt to do so.? The majority of rape victims, she notes, are victims of date rape, and the majority of incest victims are quite young. ?They don?t present themselves at a hospital or doctor?s office to ask for contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy,? she says. ?So I think it?s very disingenuous of him to suggest this is an exception for rape and incest...