Pregnancy discrimination

women to experience employment discrimination in response to pregnancy and childbirth. Women could be refused employment if pregnant. They could be fired for becoming pregnant while employed. A company could refuse to allow a woman who had worked throughout pregnancy to return to work after giving birth. In 1978, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. This Act established that discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related…

The DRC argues that prenatal testing is the gateway for a new form of discrimination that reduces people to a single unwanted gene. In cases where a potential parent is found to be carrying a particular gene or the fetus itself is seen to possess an unwanted gene, the idea of selective abortion more often than not comes to the fore. Citing Barbara Katz Rothman’s interviews, Suter states that “most counselors would have amniocentesis themselves. More than half would have, or want their…

depending on many factors such maternal age, race and pregnancy intention. Maternal and birth outcomes were also varied and may be inconsistent with the reviewed literatures. Pregnancy intention was one of the factors of interest intros study. Mohllajee., et all (2007) conducted a study using data from the population-based Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, including 87,087 women who gave birth in 18 states. Information on pregnancy outcomes was derived from birth certificate data…

based on the circumstances of the pregnancy. A woman should have the choice to have an abortion if she needed to. Abortion should be part of preanancy right that enables women to end a unwanted pregnancy…

female wishes to go through with the pregnancy, comprehensive sex education ensures that they provide insight on the various terms during pregnancy and what to expect during child birth. Also, if an individual wishes to have the child but put it up for adoption, these pathways are proposed as well. By offering a multitude of choices tends to every individual’s preference gives female students more alternatives rather than being forced to continue with a pregnancy because of the fear of breaking…

Introduction The topic of induced abortion has been a long-standing controversial debate in society. This topic has split society into those who believe in the philosophies of pro-life and those who believe in pro-choice. Essentially, supporters of pro-choice believe that the mother’s life surpasses that of the unborn fetus or embryo which is considered “nonhuman” and that “there is a moral obligation to the living” (Medoff, 2013, p.2). Conversely, the pro-life philosophy argues that “life…

People say there is a genocide known as the Modern Holocaust going on right now. I have to say I agree. The killing of babies before they are born. In some ways, it’s a discrimination. The way that so many children are aborted each year is comparable to genocide because we are attempting to destroy a type of people. As I write this paper today “67,157” abortions have happened (NumberOfAbortions.com). This is an atrocity because I can only think, what if I was aborted? When the thought crosses my…

rapist's child? Pregnancies caused by incest should always be terminated. The percent of children born with life threatening defects is 30% higher in children born from incest than in non-incest children clarified Psychology Today. Rewire News stated that in a study conducted by Iowa state and planned parenthood 14% of abortions were because of domestic violence. Also, that there's reason to suspect that women in abusive relationships are more likely to experience unintended pregnancies because…

This period was marked by job cuts, weak economy, declining financial systems, job uncertainties as well as discrimination of women at workplaces. Abortion cases rose significantly. Women became very uncertain of the prevailing economic moments. Women who had children did not want to bear more children for lack of fear of means to sustain them. Single women delayed…

gives the mother the opportunity to prepare or plan for the future of the child’s needs. There are several risks to having the prenatal genetic testing done which can include: the intervention of private lives, reproductive freedom loss, and discrimination of disability, sexual, racial conditions, and wrongful deaths. “With over 8000 single gene defects that affect at least 1% of the adult population, the demand for prenatal genetic testing is rapidly increasing.” (Ekberg, Merryn (2007), p. 68)…