Word: incestousness
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...that order. A woman about to have a baby discovers her schoolteacher husband in bed with another woman and, impulsively running away, falls down a flight of stairs and suffers a miscarriage. The druggist downstairs is seen kissing his mistress, who everybody thinks is his sister, and whispers of incest fly up and down the stairwells...
...Sinclair's novel aspires to any profundity, it is guardedly suggested by his conception of history as an illusive collection of myths that must work themselves out until they return to their original unpolluted form. Magog's corruption and putative incest are steps in his perverted search to regain innocence. "R.Z. Sheppard
...women may obtain abortions on demand. A second group of states adopted laws based on an American Law Institute model code (see map, previous page), which allows abortion to preserve the emotional or physical health of the mother, in cases of fetal abnormality and pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. But the effects are uneven because of differences in local medical policies. Thus it is more difficult to get an abortion in Arkansas than in Kansas, though both follow the A.L.I, model. Courts in three more states-Florida. Vermont and New Jersey-have in recent weeks knocked down restrictive laws...
...happy character, you're going to be fired or killed or something's going to happen." Escapism? Hardly. Unless, of course, escapism takes in such topics as murder, rape, insanity, adultery and terminal illness, which are the soaps' daily fare (among the remaining unmentionables are incest and homosexuality...
According to Price, while abortion can be seen in a sense as a bad solution to a bad problem, in certain situations, such as rape, incest or contraceptive failure, it is the only solution...