Word: pregnant
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...last word. The new dynamics will be at work this week, when, on the first Monday of October, the Justices formally open the term. Oral arguments are scheduled Wednesday in one of the most difficult cases they face. Feminists are split over a 1978 California law allowing a pregnant worker to take up to four months of unpaid leave. The Justice Department has joined a Los Angeles bank in claiming that the statute runs afoul of federal laws barring discrimination based on pregnancy. Kathy Bonk of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which also opposes the state rule, argues...
Finally, he descends into hypocrisy, or confused enthusiasm for his line of reasoning. Denying funds to pregnant women will, he implies, somehow encourage the state to address the more fundamental needs of the poor--education, housing and so on. Who on earth believes that a society which will not help the vulnerable in crisis will get around to helping them with chronic problems? What disingenuous nonsense First-trimester abortions are the sole concern of the pregnant woman, under the confidential advice of her physician. Denial of funds is imposition of parenthood. N. W. Patterson Lecturer on Celtic Languages and Literatures
...January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced in the decision of two landmark cases, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, that in the first trimester, the abortion decision must be left to the pregnant woman and her doctor. Right now, a 5-4 vote upholds Roe v. Wade; just one more anti-choice Supreme Court Justice would be enough to overturn it. If, when, and as soon as this happens, passage of Question 1 will give the Massachusetts Legislature the power to outlaw abortion--even in the case of rape and incest victims and women with serious health...
...referendum, if passed, will allow the legislature to regulate abortion in other ways. For example, the legislature could eliminate Medicaid funding for abortions. As of the Hyde Amendment of 1977, there is no federal funding for Medicaid abortions except in the case of threat of death to the pregnant woman. Massachusetts currently pays for several thousand Medicaid abortions each year, in the same way that it supports thousands more welfare births. There is currently a law on the state books which mandates Medicaid funding of abortions as long as child birth funds are provided. Only by presenting poor women with...
...Administration became convinced that despite Chinese assertions to the contrary, pregnant women were still being coerced into having abortions. Says Sharon Camp, vice president of the Population Crisis Committee, an international family-planning group: "I would guess what may still be going on is a woman who is pregnant with her second child has ten people come over to her house every night and talk to her until she has an abortion. But in the Chinese mind, that's not coercion. That's persuasion...