One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
Oh yeah, Scooby, it does. You and I have gone round many a day. I’m the reason you keep thinking you’ve had alien abductions. (Caleb)
Abduction is a romantic expression of passion.
If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.