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...Charleston, N.C., area. "You don't have the right to have a baby deformed by cocaine." Courts have given a mostly skeptical reception to the attempt to apply existing drug laws in such a novel fashion, but eight states and Congress are considering legislation that would explicitly criminalize drug use and alcohol abuse by pregnant women that results in harm to the child...
Some legal experts also warn that prenatal drug-use prosecutions could open the way to punishing women for many other kinds of behavior during pregnancy. What about drinking? Smoking? Taking prescription drugs? Or working too hard? "Are we going to be policing people's wine closets?" asks Stanford University law-school professor Deborah Rhode. Other legal scholars insist that such "slippery slope" arguments are exaggerated; laws commonly distinguish between reckless behavior and acceptable risk...
...what about men? Sexual violence is not about female behavior, after all. It's about male behavior. Physically, it may be women's problem; morally, it is men's. But where, outside a few campus grouplets, is their conversation taking place? Men's magazines still use the subject to titillate, as when Esquire puts the dead Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks on the cover of its "Women We Love" issue. A 10-year study suggests that more than one-third of alleged group sexual assaults on college campuses are perpetrated by athletes; fraternities are blamed for the majority of such...
...minorities and immigrants in the workplace. Because many Asians, for example, come from cultures that place a premium on humility, they often have trouble competing with American workers. While Asians view personal assertiveness as impolite, their white male competitors see it as the normal way of getting ahead and use it to their advantage...
...Family Code adopted by Algeria in 1984 gave a husband the right to divorce his wife for almost any reason and eject her from the family home. During debate over the code, one legislator actually proposed specifying the length of the stick that a husband may use to beat his wife. Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front, which swept local elections last June, is pushing to forbid women to work outside the home...