Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diego District Attorney's office has filed charges against a woman for her conduct during pregnancy, claiming that her child eventually died six weeks after birth because the mother ignored her doctor's advice and then delayed seeking medical help as she began to hemorrhage...
However, while ascribing rights to a fetus may be a convenient way to argue for child support, Monson's case shows it to be a slippery slope toward granting the state an interest not only in the conduct of its citizens, but also in their bodies...
...answer is yes, then how is that interest to be defined? As far the health of a child is concerned, its mother's conduct at any time during pregancy could be crucial. In fact, Substances a woman might consume even prior to conception could conceivably have profound and deleterious effects on a child. Are we to consider women's bodies the nation's breeding ground and therefore to regulate what women may eat, drink and breathe and how much they should exercise...
Obviously, no one would take the argument this far. But then how do we demarcate when a woman is to be considered legally responsible for her conduct during pregnancy? We are faced with the same insoluble question that makes abortion such an intractable issue: when does a fetus become a human being that has legal rights and stop being part of its mother's body...
...Daniloff trade that the Administration would not call a trade was promptly overshadowed by the summit that neither side would call a summit. Officially, it is a meeting to prepare for the full-scale summit in the U.S. ^ that both leaders pledged themselves to conduct when they first met in Geneva last November. The second summit was to be held sometime this year, to be followed by a third in Moscow...