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...dice. Stark, actually the ghost of Beaumont's fetal twin, who was incompletely absorbed in utero (the medical horror here is the book's only high-voltage shocker), comes to life as a cunning psychopath who, somewhat ludicrously, is determined to keep on writing. He slices up Beaumont's agent and editor and several other innocents with a straight razor, in scenes so lovingly detailed they would be called pornographic if the author had given the same attention...
Financial motives are behind a similar case at the Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. Female factory workers in 14 plants across the country have been forced to choose between sterilization operations and demotion. The company's "Fetal Protection Policy," in effect since 1982, bars fertile women from hazardous and high-paying work involving exposure to a high level of lead...
Nobody likes abortion. Pro-choice advocates do not consider abortion an attractive option to birth-control. What the pro-choice position realizes, however, is that once government takes reproductive decision-making away from individual men and women, fetal life as well as the lives of women are at stake. Legal abortion is a right that guarantees women--not government, not private business--the power of all reproductive choice...
Labor unions, women's groups and civil libertarians denounced the decision, which gives a boost to the fetal-protection policies that are spreading throughout the chemical, rubber, semiconductor and automotive industries. Challenges to such employment practices keep arising, though, and before long one may wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...five-year-old Noel, whom the Hibbards are in the process of adopting, the future is likely to hold greater challenges. A Pueblo Indian, she suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome as well as prenatal exposure to angel dust and probably cocaine. For a long time she was so sensitive to tactile stimulation that it made her hysterical to walk on carpeting, grass or sand. She has been diagnosed as mildly retarded. With a good mother's militant optimism, Mary says the Hibbard house will make the difference. "All kids need structure," she explains. "But special-needs kids need it more...