Word: incest
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...devoted to rallies that protest rape, incest and brutality against women, and includes non-profit performances of the Vagina Monologues, whose proceeds are donated to local women's groups...
...gets softer, it's plain that rock has also become one of those things, like pets and baseball, that lets parents and kids find a shared passion. It may be that Eminem doesn't provide much opportunity for parent-child bonding, unless you're trying to explain why the incest taboo is not just some stupid rule that Mom invented to be mean. But a lot of baby boomers have figured out that it's a short trip from the Pink Floyd they once loved to the Radiohead their kids love now. And a lot of their kids have likewise...
...families with each member of the Price clan giving his or her own version of how screwed up they all are. The telling is led by Viola, the know-it-all matriarch and glue who holds her estranged husband Cecil and four far-flung children together. Their heavy load--incest, substance abuse, poverty, infidelity, death--makes this a soap opera, but it is leavened with a big dollop of sass...
...Attorney General in the 1960s," says Rosemary Dempsey, Washington director of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. In 1998 Ashcroft sponsored a constitutional amendment to outlaw all abortions except those needed to save the life of the mother. Bush allows for exceptions in cases of rape or incest, but Ashcroft didn't. His proposal defined human life as beginning at fertilization, which women's groups say could have meant that not only abortion but also birth-control pills and IUDs, which prevent development of a fertilized egg, would be illegal. "Bush couldn't have chosen anyone more hostile, more...
...Abortion rights Vehemently opposed to abortion, even in the case of rape and incest, Ashcroft has earned the political and financial support of the Christian Coalition for his views. He has been quoted saying that he advocates a "human life amendment" that would ban certain kinds of commonly used birth control. At a press conference January 9, Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), called Ashcroft's nomination a "risk to the fundamental rights of every American woman." Abortion-rights activists worry Ashcroft could turn a blind eye to clinic violence, or otherwise...