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...crack kids are not the first children to be devastated by drugs while their mothers were pregnant. For many years, the unborn have been exposed to opiates, barbiturates, inhaled cocaine and a panoply of other drugs. And fetal alcohol syndrome, brought on by drinking during pregnancy, is believed to be a leading cause of mental retardation in the young...
...Court realized that fetal protection policies encroach upon women's constitutional rights...
That was the question the Supreme Court faced last week as it addressed for the first time the controversial issue of industrial fetal-protection policies. The Justices' answer, in a decision that could affect millions of workingwomen: companies cannot exclude fertile females from certain high-risk jobs because of the potential harm to unborn babies. "Women as capable of doing their jobs as their male counterparts may not be forced to choose between having a child and having a job," wrote Justice Harry Blackmun in a majority opinion for five Justices. "Decisions about the welfare of future children must...
...violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination. Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based manufacturer of automobile batteries, is just one of more than a dozen major companies -- among them, Gulf Oil, B.F. Goodrich, General Motors and Du Pont -- that now must reconsider fetal-protection guidelines...
...Pregnancy Discrimination Act." That act, a 1978 amendment to Title VII, ensured that federal antibias protections cover pregnant workers. In another concurring opinion, Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Byron White upheld the majority decision but allowed that there may be instances where "sex-specific fetal protection policy" is justifiable...