In smothering, the speaker silences or limits her testimony out of recognition that the audience is liable to discount or misunderstand it, due to their prejudicial ignorance, and that their misunderstanding is likely to be harmful to her or her identity group.
In 2003, a father in Alabama won custody of his daughter by arguing that her strict religious upbringing by her mother and stepfather was harmful to her.
Regarding pregnant women at work, conventions on maternity protection of the International Labour Organization (ILO) require that a pregnant woman not be obliged to perform work that has been determined to be harmful to her health or that of her child (ILO 2000).
We asked if he had any understanding of how sick this woman was, that she was a potential suicide with a lifelong history of abuse, and how inappropriate, and possibly harmful putting her on television might be, exposing her to further humiliation, only now it would be public shame.
It was hard for her to say "no" to his requests for coffee or a hike with the dogs, but she stood her ground and knew that it would be harmful for her to do anything other than stay clear.
But it is equally possible that she or her medical advisers were convinced that it was harmful for her to try to carry another child to term, and so took precautions to ensure that she did not.
"MCH treated your wife and family with dignity and compassion throughout her hospice stay and was in no way negligent, abusive or harmful to her or your family," the letter said.
"At this time, removal would only serve to disrupt the bond the child would develop with her parents during this important period in her life.... Rather than protecting the child, removal may be more harmful to her both in the present and in the future".
When she was pregnant with her daughter, she stopped, because the chemicals in the material she uses, acrylic airbrush, were potentially harmful to her baby.
However, as in many other cases, these must not include the use of the true names or photographs of the child as this would be harmful to her".
