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...seventh of George Fitch's 10 children, James is the first to graduate from high school. His mother Patricia Jacobs, 38, made it to senior year but dropped out when she became pregnant with the first of the four sons she had with Fitch. The couple were never legally married, but stayed together for 17 years. Fitch, a carpenter, now disabled, and Jacobs, a nurse's aide, provided their boys with a stable and protective home environment. "We kept them in the house for a long time," Patricia Jacobs recalls. "But they say you got to let them go sometime...
...portrait in American fecundity: every day hundreds of young women, their bodies roundly pregnant, descend on the University of Southern California Women's Hospital. They overflow the available chairs and sprawl awkwardly on the floor. They come for prenatal checkups, gynecological care and, finally, to deliver their young. Last year more than 18,000 babies were born in this building, roughly 1 out of every 200 babies born in the U.S. "Sometimes they are lined up in the hallways and stacked up for C-sections like planes at LAX, six or seven deep," says obstetrician-gynecologist David Grimes...
...Public Health Service's Title X program, created during the Nixon Administration to provide family-planning services to low-income women. The original act stated explicitly that federal funds were not to be used to finance abortions, but in 1981 the guidelines were changed to make it clear that pregnant women should be advised of their full menu of medical options, including prenatal care, foster care, adoption and abortion...
...woman with AIDS or Tay-Sachs disease is in danger of bearing an abnormal child, a doctor who did not give her that information and describe all her options could be liable for malpractice or "wrongful life." In June a Massachusetts woman infected with German measles while pregnant was awarded $1.3 million because her doctor failed to test adequately for the disease and then did not give her information about either her child's risk of serious malformation or her option to terminate the pregnancy...
Employers beware: discrimination against pregnant workers can be costly. AT&T agreed last week to pay $66 million in the largest settlement ever of a lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The money will compensate 13,000 current and former AT&T employees for job discrimination against pregnant women from 1965 to 1978. The company forced the women to take unpaid maternity leaves, awarded those employees less seniority than others on disability and gave them no guarantee that they could return to their jobs or equivalent positions. "A suit of this magnitude will have tremendous ripple effects," predicts...