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...place at medical school is valuable because of a variety of social and governmental policies that reduce opportunities to deliver health care and increase the incomes of doctors. Restrictive licensing laws forbid nurses and paramedics to perform simple tasks (or, in reality, allow doctors to collect a middleman's fee). Medical-school places are limited. Medicare and Medicaid expand the market for doctors' services, while doing little to promote competition on price...
...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-rights advocates say such policies are needed to protect the unborn. Critics say they are an intrusion into the lives of women and a false comfort for a society that fails...
...fetus have far-reaching implications, and not just for pregnant women. The UAW, et al. v. Johnson Controls case, now facing the Supreme Court, provides a dramatic example. In 1982 Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based company that is one of the 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...
...almost any reason and eject her from the family home. During debate over the code, one legislator actually proposed specifying the length of the stick that a husband may use to beat his wife. Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front, which swept local elections last June, is pushing to forbid women to work outside the home...
...heaven forbid a woman should cry or showemotion in public. After U.S. Rep. PatriciaSchroeder (D-Col.) tearily announced herwithdrawal from the 1988 Presidential race, shewas widely criticized for revealing her feelings.Experience has shown that every way these womenturn, they have to keep dancing in line and notmiss a beat...