Word: rape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affordable abortions. Approximately 1 million women had abortions annually until the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, and abortion had become the leading cause of maternal death and mutilation (40 deaths/100,000 abortions compared to 40 deaths/100,000 live births according to National Abortion Rights Action league.) An estimated 9000 rape victims become pregnant each year (FBI 1973); 100,000 cases of incest occur yearly (National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, 1978). Two-thirds of teenage pregnancies are not planned, because many do not have adequate access to contraceptives (NARAL). And the taxpayer price of supporting a child on welfare...
...cloud of dust, they rode through Ye Olde Square. They came to rape and pillage fair Cambridge, and to challenge the knights of King Joseph's Varsity Table. And most of all, these lusty and lecherous disgraces to chivalry came seeking the Crimson maidens, the damsels of too-tight tunics and too-short skirts, the leaders of cheer in the court of King Joseph...
Kirkland's got a strong point, but it's a point he doesn't yet believe. Only after he defends a gay accused of robbing a cabbie, a man jailed for months for a missing taillight, and a stiff trial judge accused of rape and sodomy, does he realize how justice overlooks the powerful while staring down the poor...
...Nell, despite the fine quality of Bellon's work at the technical level, the film is finally smothered under the weight of these feminist bromides. One leaves wondering if, in fact, there is any thing original or illuminating left to say about the causes and consequences of rape, whether it is now possible to go be yond talk-show rhetoric. It seems ironic that all one can honestly praise in this movie is its powerful depiction of the crime itself rather than its insights into a world where rape is a tragic commonplace...
...shed, the more they seem to crave. One youth is picked up on the street, taken back to the loft and butchered piece by piece. The remains are trussed up like a frozen turkey and thrown into the sea. Their new-found religion forbids the recruits to rob or rape their victims, but that scarcely deters them. One of them removes a blood-specked ring from a woman he has hacked to death and gives it to a friend for his new bride...