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That was not much comfort to Shirley Jean Mackey, who worked at one of the company's plants in Atlanta. A mother of one who had no immediate plans to get pregnant, she was forced to move from a job she liked, bundling lead plates, to another she hated, punching holes in hundreds of battery containers. "Each hole I punched, it was somebody's head," says Mackey. "That's just the way I felt." Along with the United Auto Workers, which represents many of Johnson Controls' employees, she is one of eight workers bringing suit against the company. They charge...
...monthly meetings of Single Mothers by Choice in New York City, coded name tags speak volumes about the complexities of modern-day parenthood. The letter T indicates the woman is thinking about having a baby on her own. A signals that she is attempting to get pregnant. P announces that she has succeeded. M is for mother. The second letter on the tag flags her method of choice. I means donor insemination. N specifies a sex partner. A stands for adoption...
...argue that it is too difficult to find enough subjects with the condition, since it develops later in women. Also, the hormone changes of the menstrual cycle are thought to complicate research, raising costs. Perhaps most important, doctors are worried that if women enrolled in a clinical trial became pregnant, experimental drugs could endanger the fetus...
...half the population -- and half the taxpayers underwriting federal research. Concern for the fetus is often exaggerated, they say. "There is a tendency to think of women as walking wombs," says the University of Wisconsin's Karlin. Most female cardiac patients, she notes, are not planning to get pregnant...
Carol Leifer, a blond with a flexible voice and metronomic timing, complains that her ex-husband tricked her into marrying him. "He told me I was pregnant...