Word: fetal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fetal rights ideology assumes that women and their fetuses have separate--and often opposing--interests during pregnancy. And by restricting women's employment long before pregnancy, fetal protection policies like Johnson Controls' assume that women's rights are subordinate to the rights of unplanned, unconceived, potentially nonexistent fetuses...
ACTIVISTS on both sides of the debate had hoped the Court would use UAW v. Johnson Controls to offer a general opinion about fetal rights...
Even this statement is hardly conclusive commentary on abortion or the fetal rights debate, but it is all that the Court offers in this decision. And in UAW v. Johnson Controls, the Court specifically refuses to view all women as always potentially pregnant...
...Johnson Controls will not be the Court's last word on fetal rights. In future cases, the justices should continue to support women's right to self-determination, understanding that pregnancy is not a fight between a fetus and its mother...
Meanwhile, the fetal rights debate will continue to be fought out in the lower courts, in hospitals, in the media and in women's bodies...