Word: incest
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...said secular law should still allow open access to the procedure. But in terms of personal morality, they rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging...
Catherine T. Struve '92, who will attend Harvard Law next fall, already has a specific field in mind. "I'm hoping to work with rape and incest survivors. I see a real need for a lawyer who wants to work in that field, she says...
...Quayle has no malign racial-political intent, he might point out, when discussing the miseries of families, that, for example, Eastern prep schools are filled with children packed off to get them away from divorce, incest, alcoholism, child abuse, wife battering and other horrors at home. The willingness to let the racist implication stand unchallenged, unexamined, loitering on the threshold, is the ugliest aspect of all this...
...mass murder of peasants. The 90 taut minutes strip away layers of secrets and suggest a link between the men's sins -- a dependence on the propensity of bourgeois Americans to look away from ugly facts rather than decry them. A compulsively watchable young actor, Keith Brush, portrays the incest victim grown up into a punky, self-pitying male prostitute...
Given that 38 percent of the women who are survivors of sexual abuse are survivors of incest, according to a study conducted in 1989 by the Children's Division of the Society for Humane Treatment, this is not an unlikely scenario...