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Which matters more, the rights of a fertile woman to work in the job she wants and is qualified for, or the rights of employers to impose work rules to protect her unborn children...
...Supreme Court faced last week as it addressed for the first time the controversial issue of industrial fetal-protection policies. The Justices' answer, in a decision that could affect millions of workingwomen: companies cannot exclude fertile females from certain high-risk jobs because of the potential harm to unborn babies. "Women as capable of doing their jobs as their male counterparts may not be forced to choose between having a child and having a job," wrote Justice Harry Blackmun in a majority opinion for five Justices. "Decisions about the welfare of future children must be left to the parents...
...repeatedly struck by the primitive lack of concern which we show for the unborn. We ask how can our community condone the snuffing out of the brilliant children of Harvard? For the sake of an attractive figure, a reputation, and an "A" in Psych, a small piece of humanity is being discarded from a world that needs bright minds more than ever before. Wake up, Harvard, or the students of the next century will regard you as a once great university that preached its lofty ideas to the world but didn't notice the suffering in its own bosom. Kenneth...
Once political outsiders, women candidates now find themselves running on the inside track. But elsewhere there are hurdles: the plight of female inmates, legal challenges from the unborn...
...amniocentesis and sonograms, are employed by women in China, Korea, India and elsewhere to detect the sex of a fetus. Many mothers will abort a female. "Over the past century science has only quickened the pace of the death of the female child, from the born to the unborn stage," says Meenu Sondhi, an amniocentesis researcher at Delhi University...