Word: spousal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Idaho, after all, has the most conservative legislature in the country. Spousal rape is still legal in the state and the secretary of state was reelected after making some outrageous statements about rape victims...
While many may be uncomfortable with a woman who has created a real sphere of power and influence in what was once merely a spousal position, such discomfort must not be the source of accusation. Her role, like that of women in general over the past few decades, has been greatly expanded. Let us not impede the First Lady from joining, and ideally leading, American women towards their long awaited sexual equality...
...comparable figures are available for the national organization. But Bruce's aggressive stand on domestic violence, to the exclusion of any other issues in the trial, has also offended many both in and out of NOW. Bruce told the Los Angeles Times, for instance, that her message about spousal abuse offered "a needed break from all that talk of racism." During a protest outside NBC studios in Burbank, just before Simpson canceled his interview with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, she said of Simpson: "You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome...
...decision about a pregnancy--or even be notified of that decision. Eleven states have laws that give husbands the right to notification or consent, but those statutes were declared unconstitutional in the 1992 Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. The court ruled that spousal-consent laws embody "a view of marriage ... repugnant to our present understanding of marriage." The decision recognized that controversial, unwanted pregnancies occur only under murky, vexing circumstances in which the relationship is already too dysfunctional for there to be voluntary communication. The court argued that since it is the woman who carries...
...other sources -- a recent American Bar Association survey found that less than one-fifth of the civil legal needs of the poor are being met; the LSC says it has to turn away 43% of eligible clients. The resulting triage means the LSC now rejects divorce cases except when spousal abuse is involved and eviction cases unless a family risks homelessness...