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The need for each living species to reproduce is incontrovertible. In some species, reproduction seems to be the very raison d’etre. However, humans in most societies have other purposes for living and, hence, more exercise of choice in the decision to reproduce. In fact, not all humans, either male or female, do reproduce, and, in modern industrial countries, reproduction is limited and carefully timed by the majority of people.
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Court of Justice ruling on pregnancy and protection as cited in note 2.
Commission of the European Community, “Protective Legislation for Women in the European Community,” Brussels, 1987.
Table 1 is taken from Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center News 8(3), Spring 1987, p. 8 and is based on information contained in the source in note 2.
See Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried, and Ruth Hubbard, “Biological Woman: The Convenient Myth” (1982) for extensive documentation of the misinterpretation and misuse of science with regard to women.
Curran, William J., “Law-Medicine Notes: Dangers for Pregnant Women in the Work Place,” New England Journal of Medicine 312, January 17, 1985, pp. 164–165.
This analysis appeared as a signed editorial in Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center News 8(3), Spring 1987.
See Stellman, Jeanne, “Protective Legislation, Ionizing Radiation and Health: A New Appraisal and International Survey,” Women and Health 12(1), 1987 for a discussion of these changes and the rationale behind them.
See note 5.
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Stellman, J.M. (1989). Protective Legislation and Occupational Hazards: Flawed Science and Poor Policies. In: Cohen, S., Taub, N. (eds) Reproductive Laws for the 1990s. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3710-5_16
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