Word: raped
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...call attention to the violence and force of incest by calling it something like "incestuous rape"? Of course, now that the news media and Congress insist on separating our rape categories for us, "incestuous rape" might still not connote "forcible" to some. "Forcible incestuous rape...
CONGRESS isn't the only arm of government making these odd linguistic judgments on rape. In its human rights reports on the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador, the State Department has taken to calling rape--standard punishment for women political prisoners--a form of "psychological torture," as distinct from beatings and burnings, which are placed in a category of physical torture. How, exactly, can a man "psychologically", and not physically, rape a woman...
...going to decide what's "psychological" or "forcible" and what's not? The Secretary of State? Congress? The news media? The courts? Are women going to have to go to court to "prove" they've been victims of "psychological torture" or "forcible rape" in order to get Medicaid funding for abortions, or in the worst scenario, in order to get abortions...
...court system is already heavily stacked against the possibility of women and children receiving any kind of fair treatment in cases of rape and incest. Witness the much-publicized situation of Elizabeth Morgan, whose ex-husband, Eric Foretich, allegedly raped their infant daughter Hilary...
...language of rape--language that we all use and influence--can be amended for and against the protection of women's rights. Women's rights are currently losing, with the help of network correspondents, State Department personnel, custody judges' clerks, and ordinary viewers and readers like...