Word: motherhood
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SURROGATE motherhood may be a job, but it keeps a woman in the home. And that appears to be one point in Marybeth Whitehead-Gould's favor in the eyes of the court...
...showed that a woman's best defense is a promise not to work for a living. The line of argument pursued not only by Mrs. Whitehead-Gould's lawyer, but also by the Stern's attorney, showed that the men in this case have made one measure of good motherhood a willingness to give up a career and stay home with the baby...
...will be looking for more in-depth proposals for higher education, not just platitudes," says Saunders of ACE. Saunders says that it would be "disturbing if they [the candidates] were using it as a God and motherhood issue...
...Committee, vehemently disagrees. "The abuse is not in the sale of those tissues," he says, "but in killing the baby in the first place." Janice Raymond, professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is concerned that such attitudes, as well as practices like surrogate motherhood, have already begun to erode women's control over the childbearing process. "No one is holding a gun to any woman," she says. "But I think it's important to look at the entire context in which this issue of fetal tissue is arising." That may be easier said than...
...idea for a think tank on biomedical ethics. At the start, Callahan and Gaylin wondered if there would be enough moral issues to keep them busy. But since an initial project on the definition of death, Hastings researchers have dealt with organ transplants, artificial reproduction, surrogate motherhood (Callahan opposes it; some of his colleagues approve), AIDS testing and privacy, genetic engineering -- a never-ending list...