Word: rapes
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John Shattuck, a former ACLU lawyer and the University's vice president for government and community affairs, said that confidentiality rules for rape and assault cases are not unusual. Although saying he was not familiar with the details of this case in particular, Shattuck said such agreements are used to protect the rights of victims involved...
...women. But the measure proposed in Question 3 is neither an appropriate, nor a just, nor an efficient means of combating the discrimination against which it is targeted. An unconstitutional attempt at censorship, it does not touch the deeper problems of women's economic inequality and inadequate protection by rape laws and other legislation...
...defined, and therefore cannot be legislated against. The referendum defines pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/or words." But we cannot condone the implications of that definition, particularly of the word "subordination." While the bill would allow for prosecution of pornographers who kidnap, rape and film women--and this is clearly a good motivation--it would also, presumably, subject to legal action museum and gallery displays, advertisements, and even literary works and other texts taught in schools. And the provision for legal action against anyone "forcing pronography" on another could be interpreted to include...
...intended to be. But they feel these potential damages are worthwhile sacrifices for the larger cause of freeing women from the subordination they have suffered throughout history. We disagree. We feel that sexism and violence against women are better attacked by more severe punishments for such offenses as assault, rape, sexual discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere, and by efforts to bring about economic parity for women through comparable worth legislation...
Women need laws that are stringent, focused, and effective. Women need laws that target the real harm being done every day, in the streets and in illicit places. Assault, kidnapping, coercion, and rape--all elements of much of the most egregious pornography--are all illegal. Those crimes must be better prosecuted. In particular, the laws involving reporting and prosecution of rape need to be reworked to offer victims better protection and ensure that rapists are more severely punished...