On 9/30/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This policy was designed to protect corps against suits for damaging fetuses -- to protect the corps, not the fetuses.
Sure, fetuses are just political footballs, as always. They used fetuses to exclude women from higher-paying male-dominated jobs, whereas women weren't excluded from jobs ideologically regarded as suitable for women, even though a number of such "women's jobs" exposed women workers to occupational hazards that endanger reproductive health as well. Now that worst discrimination has been banned, and a movement for "fetal rights" has legally taken off, the time is ripe for anti-abortionists to go after women who take dangerous jobs on the grounds that they, like pregnant women who use drugs, endanger their fetuses. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
