Word: incestousness
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...House approved appropriations legislation that prevents women in the armed forces and their dependents from obtaining abortions at military hospitals overseas, even if they pay for them. In jeopardy too are Medicaid funds that now may be used to provide abortions to poor women who suffer rape and incest, as well as the use of federal family-planning money to provide abortion counseling. Antiabortion legislators will also attempt to restore a series of prohibitions that Clinton overturned in his first week in office--among them, bans on fetal-tissue research and importation of RU-486, the French abortion-inducing drug...
...nothing less of a drama that traffics in suicide, fratricide, regicide, specters, madness, incest. Horatio in the first act tries to discourage Hamlet from pursuing his father's ghost: "What if it tempt you toward the flood?" But full into the flood Hamlet eagerly plunges-and we in the audience with him. It is one of the play's many paradoxes that the character we rely upon to guide us on so long and stormy a journey is himself so feckless and equivocal. Although "most royal" and a "noble heart," Hamlet unwittingly destroys almost everyone dear to him-even while...
True to the spirit of the commandment, if not the letter, "Decalogue 4"--"Honor thy father and thy mother"--is a provocative look at incest. A motherless girl suspects that her father is not actually her father and draws him into a game of deceit to expose the unacknowledged desire that lies between them. But is he really not her father? And if he were her father, would that change the feelings that they have for each other? Forbidden desire clashes with the expectations that each family member holds to another. From the opening water-fight between father and daughter...
...principles collide here: reverence for life vs. the precept that the purpose of a human life should be to reduce suffering; any act that increases the total of human suffering is immoral, and any act that reduces suffering is moral. By those criteria, some births-those that result from incest or rape, or threaten the mother's life-would increase suffering, and the abortions that prevent them are, sadly, excusable...
...divided House Appropriations Committee late last night voted to let states refuse to spend federal funds on abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Supporters of the controversial measure proposed by Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) said it is a step towards restoring states' rights. But White House spokesman Mike McCurry called it "a back alley approach to taking away a woman's right to choose...