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Once such a precedent is set, women whose jobs involve contact with hazardous materials might be held back--or laid off--by their employers, who would be trying to clear themselves of liability if the woman to become pregnant and have a damaged fetus. Sound far-fetched? In fact, a major legal controversy arose last year over whether employers were being paternalistic and discriminatory by shunting women away from positions of responsibility which involve hazards to fertility...
...effect of "fetus-abuse" legislation would be to place an undue burden on the pregnant women. Justice David M. Borden, who wrote the decision in the Hartford case, said he rejected the fetus-abuse argument because it would have made judges look back throughout the whole period of pregnancy for possible "abuses" any time a child was born damaged, throwing a suspicion on the mother which would often be impossible either to prove or remove...
...there, I found myself bonding with her. She was just the greatest little girl. Suddenly I got tuned into the joys of parenthood. When Mia said it would be nice if she had someone else, I think I'll adopt another child, I said great. And coincidentally she got pregnant shortly after that. I was delighted...
...wife giving birth to the devil's son in Rosemary's Baby. At 21, Soon- Yi's present age, Mia married a famous entertainer in his 50s: Sinatra. After the divorce she was befriended by songwriter Dory Previn; she had an affair with Previn's husband Andre and became pregnant. They married, had three biological children and adopted three more. Soon-Yi was one of them...
Whatever the motivation, Mrs. Bush's remarks put her at odds with Marilyn Quayle. The Vice President's wife last month contradicted her husband's public comments by insisting that if their 13-year-old daughter ever became pregnant out of wedlock, she would "carry the baby to term." Mrs. Bush had little use for this inflexible logic. Said she: "You can't pin a child down and say, 'You can't have an abortion; that's against the law.' " But the First Lady quickly added that any differences between the two women were a measure of the G.O.P...