Word: incest
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...true even of Peter's winged steed, the charmingly anthropomorphized Spirit of Babbington, which may not be an ace at lifting off but proves a surprisingly excellent road buddy. The effect is like a happy-go-lucky Nabokov, with all the road-tripping wordplay and none of the incest. It's a joy to watch Kraft resuscitate stale idioms with a simple twist, as when Peter describes the verbally dexterous Albertine not as having a way with words but as having her way with them...
...Mexico City Policy was created by the Reagan administration in 1984 and announced at a United Nations population conference in that city. Contrary to claims made by various pro-choice organizations, the policy never forbade recipients from discussing abortion in cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother’s life. Counselors were even permitted to discuss elective abortion if the woman asked. Moreover, the move aligned our foreign policy with the reasoning behind the Hyde Amendment to Medicaid appropriations bills, first passed in 1976, which prohibited federal funds from being spent on abortion in the United States...
...Mexico City policy did was take that prohibition several steps further. Under the policy, NGOs that applied for family-planning funds from the U.S. Agency on International Development (USAID) had to refrain from using any of their own funds to provide abortion (with exceptions for cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother). The organizations also were not eligible if they lobbied to make or keep abortion legal in their own country or if they provided abortion referrals - a requirement that led many opponents of the policy to dub it a "global gag rule...
...After the election, Warren sowed more confusion about his support for Prop. 8. First he compared homosexuality to incest, pedophilia and polygamy, and then he tried to walk back from those comments by insisting that the real reason he backed the initiative was to protect the free-speech rights of pastors to decry homosexuality. It was an argument made by some other Prop. 8 proponents during the campaign, but it is a phony...
...forum. "They hadn't done their research on Warren," says one progressive religious figure. "Obama wasn't prepared for the Saddleback thing at all, and Warren bushwhacked him." Likewise, Obama's senior staff was not aware of Warren's most recent controversial comments - including his comparison of homosexuality to incest and his belief that the President of Iran should be assassinated - when they signed off on his selection for the Inauguration...