Word: incestousness
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...Quayle has no malign racial-political intent, he might point out, when discussing the miseries of families, that, for example, Eastern prep schools are filled with children packed off to get them away from divorce, incest, alcoholism, child abuse, wife battering and other horrors at home. The willingness to let the racist implication stand unchallenged, unexamined, loitering on the threshold, is the ugliest aspect of all this...
...example, women who have grown up in sexually abusive environments are unlikely to be protective to their bodies or to insist on their own physical autonomy. A woman who has grown up as the victim of incest is unlikely to consider the idea of sexual "violation" as a relevance to her; all her sexual experiences have been abusive violations...
Given that 38 percent of the women who are survivors of sexual abuse are survivors of incest, according to a study conducted in 1989 by the Children's Division of the Society for Humane Treatment, this is not an unlikely scenario...
...some places they won't be able to. naral predicts that 13 states will ban abortion outright, though typically with exceptions for the so-called hard cases: when the life of the mother is at risk, the fetus is seriously deformed or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Other states are likely to be satisfied with a raft of new restrictions, such as 24-hour waiting periods and laws requiring clinics to be equipped as hospitals, which would drive up prices. Parental notification laws, already in place in 18 states, will be even more widely adopted, posing problems...
Take Back the Night is ostensibly a series of events to raise awareness in the community about the appalling prevalence of violence against women. But Take Back the Night should not just be a "women's event." The lectures, films and panel discussions on date rape, rape prosecution, pornography, incest and anti-gay violence should be of interest and of some help to all people. No one should avoid these issues or feel that they aren't affected by violence against a group or individual in this society...