Word: incestousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The Senate sent President Bush yesterday a bill permitting federally financed abortions for poor women who are victims of rape or incest, ignoring the president's pledge to veto the measure...
...measure would allow federal money to be spent on abortions for poor women who are victims of rape or incest and who "reported promptly" to law enforcement or public health authorities...
...raped child. Why are "incest" and "sexual abuse" always in categories separate from "rape"? "Incest" is a noun, not a verb; there's no such thing as "to incest," and the victim and agent of incest are indistinguishable "committers of incest." "Committing incest" in our language is conceived as merely a violation of the accepted law and morality, not of the privacy of a woman's or child's body...
...call attention to the violence and force of incest by calling it something like "incestuous rape"? Of course, now that the news media and Congress insist on separating our rape categories for us, "incestuous rape" might still not connote "forcible" to some. "Forcible incestuous rape...
...court system is already heavily stacked against the possibility of women and children receiving any kind of fair treatment in cases of rape and incest. Witness the much-publicized situation of Elizabeth Morgan, whose ex-husband, Eric Foretich, allegedly raped their infant daughter Hilary...