Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, the feminists. Betty Friedan, for one, thought the very concept of the trial sullied by its subservience to "masculine" social theory: "This whole thing has to be taken out of the realm of contract law that is based on the male model of corporate stocks and commodity trading," she told The New York Times."If the woman wants to keep the baby, you would have to assume that the claim of the woman who has carried the baby for nine months should take precedence over the claim of the man who has donated one of his 50 million sperm...
...workplace. They argue that the bonds that develop between mother and child know no laws that humans may construct among themselves: "The forces that are at work here are not to be reduced to using the strength and power of the state to hold a woman to a contract that does violence to her own humanity the bonds of a mother to her child are a lot deeper than the 200-year-old experiment we call the United States of America and the Constitution," said the Rev. Edward M. Bryce, the director of pro-life activities for the National Conference...
...question that ought to be answered before the next such trial proves necessary: Are there any ethical limits on what one person may pay another to do? It is a question that rarely arises in the world of normal commerce, even in the modern service economy (of which the contract drawn between William Stern and Mary Beth Whitehead for her to bear his baby may stand as the oddest example). Problems of conscience do not crop up when you pay someone to deliver your paper or your pizza, or to answer your phone. Something is sought, someone is compensated...
...What he does not take into account is that he is engaging someone to feel sensations on behalf of him and his wife that properly belong only to him and his wife. What seems so easy mechanically turns out to be an impossibility, yet the sanctioning by contract obfuscates the reality. Instead of a simple deal, he has swung a deal whose complications are infinite, and infinitely surprising; they are not in anyone's control...
Berenson conducted himself with what he called an "invincible passion for independence." This is not to say he achieved it. Colin Simpson's Artful Partners concedes that B.B.'s spirit may have been willing but that his flesh was weak. The evidence is incriminating: a secret 1912 contract with Duveen that reads like a textbook on conflict of interest, and a clandestine "X ledger," which details the artful partners' profits, losses and restoration expenses. There are also numerous examples that suggest Berenson relaxed his standards or changed his mind to accommodate Duveen and his brothers, who, as Simpson writes, were...