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NOW is a liberal interest group designed to advance liberal policies with regard to women (if abortion on demand can be described as liberal) and consistently has no truck with abused or harrassed women who might in other circumstances hold conservative views.
While it is certainly true that Prozac is overprescribed, and likely abused, it is also true that it is a powerful, necessary therapy for the treatment of severe depression.
She would be in the morally ambivalent position of the abused spouse, both deserving of sympathy and responsible for her own failure to act.
House Republicans turned the groundswell of emotion loosed by abused taxpayers at hearings last month into votes for such ideas as putting the burden of proof on the agency in tax disputes and establishing an independent, largely civilian, control and review board.
Boys Town rejected John for admission when he was a child, and Tom had been abused and liked to mutilate himself.