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...look at a few illustrative statistics. A study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute reports that less than two percent of all abortions are performed because of rape or health issues. Most reasons given for abortion involve some sort of personal judgment on economic means or lifestyle inadequacies. The demographics of the women who seek abortions seem to reinforce this—21 percent are teenagers, and well over half of unwed pregnant women will opt for an abortion. These figures should make clear that abortions are used primarily as an instrument of socioeconomic preservation—over one fifth...
Last month, a promising 18-year-old from Tianjin?given the pseudonym Zhang Nanxing by Chinese newspapers?arrived to start his first year at a university in the northeast. Within days, he was arrested on charges of armed robbery and attempted rape. Seeking money to fund his hours in Internet caf?s, Zhang allegedly stole mobile phones and cash from two girls, then attempted to imitate what he'd learned surfing pornographic websites...
...allowing the Pentagon to try the 14 before military commissions that would replace the tribunals Bush originally set up, which were struck down by the Supreme Court in June. The bill also spells out specific acts that U.S. interrogators of terrorists are banned from committing--such as torture, murder, rape and infliction of severe physical or mental pain--and by design, some legal scholars say, permits anything else...
...with a wife, a brother, several disguises and cell phones and more than $50,000 in cash. Jeffs, who vanished after being indicted in Mohave County, Ariz., last year, was extradited to Utah, where he was also wanted on a charge of acting as an accomplice to rape...
...Utah, Jeffs faces two felony counts of rape as an accomplice, for allegedly arranging the marriage of a teenage girl to an older man. In Arizona he faces multiple counts of sexual conduct with a minor and multiple counts of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Jeffs is being held in federal custody in a Las Vegas county jail pending a court hearing on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. It is not yet clear whether Jeffs will face extradition to Arizona or Utah. "Everyone will get their turn with Jeffs," said Tim Fuhrman, Special...