Word: fetus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
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...
...fact, the Court judges pregnancy-related "rights" only once in this ruling. The majority opinion, signed by Justices O'Connor and Souter among others, veers surprisingly close to an implicit support of a woman's right to choose whether or not to bear a fetus to term...
...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...
...year of debate, Maryland Governor William D. Schaefer signed a bill last week that would protect a woman's right to have an abortion should the Supreme Court ever reverse its 1973 decision guaranteeing that right nationwide. The law allows abortion without restrictions up to the time a fetus is able to survive outside the womb; after that, an abortion can be performed only to protect a woman's health or when a fetus is deformed. While pro-choice advocates acclaimed the new law, antiabortion groups attacked it. "It will become the most liberal, the most extreme abortion...