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...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...
...family business be run? Behavior outside the family's value system can also trip the switch: coming out of the closet, marrying interracially or converting to a new religion. Then there are cutoffs linked to extreme emotional states, the reasons for which--such as untreated mental illness, substance abuse, incest and violence--may never be brought out into the open...
...abortion, any form of dialogue between the two sides has clearly broken down. The rhetoric of the debate is extreme, with claims for a policy of no-questions-asked abortion on demand competing with calls for a complete ban on the procedure, even in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life is in danger. Neither of these positions are or will become law, at least given the current Supreme Court makeup, and therefore I contend it is time for both sides to consider where they can agree on a common goal--fewer abortions--and the following plan...