Word: incestousness
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...Incest with a child is among the most horrible crimes an adult can commit. But it is also one of the easiest to hide. Children are pressured not to tell. No one wants to believe parents or other relatives ever sexually abuse their young charges. But this conspiracy of silence, which only helps perpetuate the tragedy, is beginning to crumble...
...looming face-offs between the White House and Congress, the Senate last week defied George Bush's threatened veto and passed a measure that would allow abortion counseling at federally funded clinics. It would also permit use of Medicaid funds for abortions for poor women who become rape or incest victims...
...prison and a $100,000 fine for any doctor who performs an illegal abortion, although the woman undergoing the procedure would not be punished. Exceptions would be allowed only if the mother's life was threatened by pregnancy or if she had been the victim of rape or incest. Ignoring Roemer's demands for broader protections for such victims, however, the legislature added the requirement , that the alleged act of rape or incest be reported to the police within one week for the abortion to be considered legal. Said the Governor: "((The law is)) going to be expensive to litigate...
UTAH. Approved by Governor Norman Bangerter in January, Utah's statute permits abortions only if pregnancy results from rape or incest, if childbearing could cause "grave damage to the pregnant woman's medical health" or if the procedure is intended to prevent the birth of a child with "grave defects." The state has refrained from putting the measure into effect until a federal district court rules on its constitutionality...
...abortion -- just as the presidential election season gets under way. Last week both houses of the Louisiana legislature overrode Governor Buddy Roemer's veto of a bill that would prohibit virtually all abortions, except to save the life of the mother or in some cases of rape or incest. The new law was rushed before a federal judge in New Orleans, who will hold a hearing next month on its constitutionality, the first step on the road to the Supreme Court, where antiabortion laws from Pennsylvania, Utah and Guam are also headed...