Re: Fetal Protection and Workplace Discrimination Against Women

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/30/06, Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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