the Emperor's mother. As has been noted earlier, this would be considered incest only if she had been a sister of the Emperor's father. Rather soon after
but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked. Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954)
biologically related. The most fundamental type of incest is between child and parent. However, incest also occurs between siblings and between more distant
woman must be forced to bear a child under all circumstances. pp.49 -50 Texas’s statute, by contrast, makes no exception for rape or incest. It permits
events have taken. In Rome, of course, it would be unremarkable: adultery, incest, one merely shrugs. When he was at the Vatican, in Cardinal Bainbridge’s
that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence