Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compulsory segregation by sex is banned in nearly all classes and extracurricular activities. (Among the exceptions: Boy and Girl Scout programs, sex-education classes and phys.-ed. classes featuring contact sports.) Pregnant girls cannot be excluded from class because of their condition. Sexual discrimination is barred in scholarship aid and admissions at the 2,700 or so federally aided colleges and universities. Despite feminist pressure, HEW refused to bar textbooks that might contain "sex stereotypes," fearing court battles on First Amendment grounds...
...FEBRUARY a Boston jury convicted a City Hospital obstetrician of manslaughter for the death of a fetus. Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin had aborted the fetus during an October 3, 1973, operation on a 17-year-old pregnant woman. Abortion, however, was not the issue, according to the prosecution. Newman A. Flanagan, the prosecutor, argued that the special nature of the operation produced, for a least one split second, a live birth, and that the subsequent death of the "baby" constituted an act of manslaughter...
...investigation was prompted by the publication, in the June 1973 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, of the four doctors' results in an experiment involving penicillin administered to pregnant women...
...moved first to Onsted, Mich., later to the Seattle suburbs. Last December after separating from his wife, Taylor settled down in Houston. There he was indicted last week on three counts of aggravated sexual abuse, one count of attempted aggravated rape, and the rape of a 16-year-old pregnant girl. He is also likely to be indicted for the murder of a 21-year-old go-go dancer...
...baby's uterine environment. He also attached a tiny motor that provides motion similar to what the fetus experienced when the mother's heart beat and as she walked about. The preemie's sense of security is further heightened by the recorded sound of a pregnant mother's heartbeat piped into the artificial womb. Gluck hopes that his invention, which has been tested on only half a dozen babies so far, will help lower the high mortality rate of premature infants...