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What makes rape different from other forms of assault is that it involves the alienation of a woman or man from control over her or his own body. The introduction of physical or psychological coercion into sex attacks the very core of bodily determination and the right to control one's sexual, reproductive, and emotional life. The support for abortion rights is predicated on the same principles: women must have the right to control their own bodies and determine when and if they want to become mothers. The battle against sexual violence in this country has always been intimately linked...
Some argue that eliminating the refund option will represent a coercion of speech, since it will effectively force students to show support for causes they do not believe. But requiring a mandatory health services fee that also subsidizes a legal medical procedure is no more coercive to expression than a mandatory student-activity fee that also funds radical political groups...
...stands to hurt both of them." In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, Ray said that he's bolstered his prosecutorial staff in recent weeks and will pursue charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in the Monica Lewinsky case as well as charges surrounding the coercion of Kathleen Willey. The following is a listing of what's at stake for some of the major figures...
Hence, perhaps, Scenario B: seeing that the old economic and biological pressures to marry don't work anymore, people will decide to replace them with new forms of coercion. Divorce will be outlawed, along with abortion and possibly contraception. Extramarital hanky-panky will be punishable with shunning or, in the more hard-line jurisdictions, stoning. There will still be sex, and probably plenty of it inside marriage, thanks to what will be known as Chemically Assisted Monogamy: Viagra for men and Viagra-like drugs for women, such as apomorphine and Estratest (both are being tested right now), to reignite...
...suit represents a legitimate claim of the many Chilean citizens who were the victims of undeserved violence and coercion. Thousands of Chileans still search for family members who "disappeared" and thousands more nurse the scars, both physical and emotional, incurred during Pinochet's 17-year rein...