Word: incestousness
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...Willie Morris, and gives some good advice: don't give up. A colleague of his, he reports, decided to trade the New York rat race for a Vermont farm. He soon "learned that paradise is an illusion. In the countryside as in the big city, he found adultery, incest, murder, fraud, brutality, stupidity, sloth, greed, hatred and bigotry...
...first state to legalize hospital abortions on three principal medical grounds. Based on a model code drafted by the American Law Institute, the new statute authorizes abortion whenever a pregnancy 1) threatens grave damage to the woman's physical or mental health, 2) results from rape or incest, or 3) is likely to produce a child with a severe mental or physical defect. Even then, abortions require unanimous approval by a hospital panel of three doctors. North Carolina has followed suit, but does not require panels. California's new law is similar to Colorado's but bars...
...established in U.S. law. To abort a rubella (German measles) victim, they say, is to rely on the purely statistical chance (average odds: 50-50) that her child may be defective-and to doom a possibly perfect baby in the process. To abort a fetus produced by rape or incest, they say, is to execute the most innocent partv in the trianele purely for the mother's social convenience. Even the rapist is guaranteed a trial based on all of law's due-process standards. Why no due process for the fetus? Not only that: some states already...
...this war of the sexes, Deborah Harford, the mother, is a neurotic daydreamer who cannot yield her son Simon to another woman. A fretful, aging charmer, her hidden impulse is as sin-deep as incest. Using spider-and-fly tactics, Deborah invites Simon to take over the tangled web of his dead father's business and installs Daughter-in-Law Sara as mistress of the Harford mansion. Simon, an erstwhile poet turned gimlet-eyed merchant, agrees-if he can absorb the entire firm and expunge his father's name. Deeper shades of Oedipus. In the end, mother goes...
...have visited the poorest slums of the republic and recommend the same visit to the people who examine the population problem above all from the moral point of view. What can we say of the frequent incest; of the primitive sexual experiences; of the miserable treatment of children; of the terrible proliferation of prostitution of children of both sexes; of frequent abortion; of almost animal union because of alcohol ic excesses...