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...drug delivery have cropped up in nine states across the country. Like the abortion issue, they raise serious questions about a woman's right to privacy and the obligations of the state and the individual toward the unborn. At the center of these cases lies a controversial legal concept: fetal rights. This notion also underlies one of the most important cases before the Supreme Court during its current term. At issue are "fetal-protection policies" used by many companies to forbid fertile female employees from taking jobs that might expose them to substances that could harm an unborn child. Fetal...
...nation's largest car-battery manufacturers, decided to forbid its fertile women employees to hold jobs that would expose them to lead levels potentially damaging to a fetus. High doses of lead -- higher than any permitted by law in the workplace -- have been linked to miscarriages and fetal death. Even lower levels, however, can result in learning problems and diminished growth for exposed babies. "This decision was not taken lightly," says Denise Zutz, director of corporate communications for Johnson Controls. "We were concerned about the risks to children." The company was also seeking to avoid later lawsuits by any children...
...Victorian broodmare." If the Supreme Court rules for Johnson Controls, then by some estimates up to 20 million jobs, many of them well paid, could eventually be closed to women. Gulf Oil, B.F. Goodrich, Du Pont and Eastman Kodak are just some of the companies that have instituted fetal-protection policies since a federal court upheld such measures in 1984. Johnson Controls estimates that more than half its production jobs are barred to fertile women...
...Harshbarger did not realize how his arguments would be used by those who support fetal rights, he lacks the foresight necessary to defend the rights of all Massachusetts citizens. If he did understand the ramifications of the case before he undertook the prosecution, he certainly lacks judgement...
...life movement is determined to fight over each one. The movement insists that its position springs from religious beliefs that allow no compromise. Indeed, the harsh logic of the abortion argument makes the exception for rape and incest vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy. If all fetal life is sacred, as pro-lifers insist, there should be no distinction between pregnancies that result from consensual sex and those that result from force. Otherwise, bearing a child becomes a woman's punishment...