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...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...
During her 23-year marriage, Margaret Randolph could have qualified as a poster woman for spousal abuse. Her husband Gary Randolph, a sometime dock worker, would get drunk and then "bring out his guns," Margaret says. He would shoot up the house as their three children, now ages 22, 15 and 13, dived for cover under the beds. According to Margaret, one night Gary shot her in the arm with a pistol. Afraid to report the incident to the police, she packed up the children a few months later and moved from their St. Louis home to Chatsworth, Georgia...
...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...
...missile-tracking plane crashed after crewmen's wives climbed into both pilots' seats. They were encouraged by the Air Force to accompany their husbands on "spousal-orientation flights." "The wives were being allowed to sit in both pilots' seats, and one apparently maneuvered the controls, sending the aircraft out of control," Diehl says. From an altitude of 29,000 feet, the plane spiraled at 400 miles an hour for about 90 seconds before it hit a barley field. The last voice heard via radio was a woman's. "The [investigation] board decided they would report that one pilot seat...