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...Court's 9-0 decision in UAW v. Johnson Controls killed a new breed of sex discrimination based on the age-old idea that women's special responsibility to future generations justifies limiting their employment opportunities. So-called "fetal protection policies" might have applied in more than two million jobs had they remained legal, according to the Department of Labor...
ACTIVISTS on both sides of the debate had hoped the Court would use UAW v. Johnson Controls to offer a general opinion about fetal rights...
Even this statement is hardly conclusive commentary on abortion or the fetal rights debate, but it is all that the Court offers in this decision. And in UAW v. Johnson Controls, the Court specifically refuses to view all women as always potentially pregnant...
...UAW v. Johnson Controls will not be the Court's last word on fetal rights. In future cases, the justices should continue to support women's right to self-determination, understanding that pregnancy is not a fight between a fetus and its mother...
Still, the efforts to protect the rights of the fetus have far-reaching implications, and not just for pregnant women. The UAW, et al. v. Johnson Controls case, now facing the Supreme Court, provides a dramatic example. In 1982 Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based company that is one of the nation's largest car-battery manufacturers, decided to forbid its fertile women employees to hold jobs that would expose them to lead levels potentially damaging to a fetus. High doses of lead -- higher than any permitted by law in the workplace -- have been linked to miscarriages and fetal death. Even...