Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers, of course, have suffered losses. Among those who have, the rollbacks may involve nonwage items, ranging from lost vacation time to shrunken health benefits. But a pay reduction remains the unkindest cut. Buffy Mello, 34, a divorced mother of three, dreads the arrival of next March because she is among 950 workers at the USS-POSCO steel mill in Pittsburg, Calif., who will suffer a 4.5% pay reduction at that time. For Mello, a junior-grade electrician, the change will reduce her wages from $14.37 an hour to about $13.73, a difference of $108 a month. Other workers elsewhere...
...long preoccupied people on both sides of the abortion debate. If medicine can save the life of an immature fetus, how can society allow the termination of an advanced pregnancy? When does the constitutional obligation to protect a potential citizen begin? How are the fetus' interests weighed against the mother's right to liberty and privacy...
...Supreme Court attempted to address these questions in its landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. The court's solution rested on the concept of viability, defined as the time the fetus is "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb albeit with artificial aid." Until that point, said the majority, a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy was guaranteed by the privacy rights implicit in the 14th Amendment, which has been interpreted to include personal rights relating to marriage, procreation and contraception. But once viability occurs, the court ruled, a state may limit or proscribe abortion...
...Reagan appointee to replace Justice Lewis Powell could tip the court majority. But any effort to find a new basis for the nation's abortion law would have to reckon with the essentially irresolvable conflict between society's obligation to protect a newly independent life and the mother's right to privacy...
...after Kohl's announcement, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese traveled to Bonn for consultations. Meese came away satisfied, he said, that there will be no future deal to exchange Hamadei for the kidnaped West Germans. President Reagan repeated those promises in a telephone call to Patricia Stethem, mother of the murdered diver...