Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston judge took complete custody rights away from Virginia LaLonde, whose only crime seems to be the failure to convince the courts that her ex-husband raped their daughter. The judge found the LaLonde child, a 12-year-old, to be too much under the influence of her mother. Her mother can no longer see her, and her father, the same man the girl called a rapist a few years ago, is now her sole guardian...
...Johnson Controls of Milwaukee instituted a strict employment policy for women working in its battery-manufacturing division. It excluded women capable of bearing children from jobs that expose workers to certain levels of lead. The reason, said the company, was medical: scientific evidence indicates that exposing a mother to lead contamination can cause serious damage to the nervous system of a fetus...
...provision agreed to by the House would allow Medicaid payments for abortions when the mother's life is in jeopardy or when the pregnancy resulted from a rape or incest that was "promptly" reported to authorities. Since 1981--and as recently as Aug. 2--the House has voted for language limiting federal aid to abortions in cases in which the woman's life was in danger...
...president's senior advisors would recommend a veto if Congress sent him a bill that would pay "for abortions in cases beyond when the life of the mother is endangered," said Alixe Glen, a White House spokesperson...
...next day, when I returned to the refrigerator, something was scrawled under the message. It read, "I didn't touch his mother. I swear...