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...Court's 9-0 decision in UAW v. Johnson Controls killed a new breed of sex discrimination based on the age-old idea that women's special responsibility to future generations justifies limiting their employment opportunities. So-called "fetal protection policies" might have applied in more than two million jobs had they remained legal, according to the Department of Labor...
However, the debate surrounding fetal protection policies has by no means ended with this decision. Not only are the government, employers and workers left with the question of how to clean up workplace hazards and eliminate current reproductive risks for both men and women, but the Court's ruling effectively side-stepped the explosive ideological issue of "fetal rights" underlying fetal protection policies...
...fetal rights controversy has developed over the past decade as an offshoot of the continuing effort to illegalize abortion. Anti-abortion advocates recognized that if a fetus was granted the same rights under the law as a born human being, abortion would begin to look more and more like murder in the eyes...
...result, cases seeking to establish a broad range of fetal legal rights have grown increasingly common. The most prominent of these cases have involved arrests of pregnant women addicted to drugs and court-ordered caesarean sections...
Although the issues of abortion and fetal rights are still intimately connected, the fetal rights debate has recently become a burning issue in its own right. There are even some pro-choice advocates who support fetal rights, arguing that once a woman has chosen to carry a fetus to term she has every responsibility to ensure a healthy birth. This responsibility could include eating well, giving up drinking and smoking, quitting work, staying in bed for months or even aborting a deformed fetus...