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Overweight and Out of Work: Discrimination and Obesity
Last Aired: 12/31/2001

Should laws protect fat people from discrimination? The City of San Francisco recently passed a law making it illegal to discriminate against the obese. Is being fat a civil right,### a medical disability, or a personal choice? Are sizism and weightism the last acceptable prejudice or an expression of a valid concern for public health?
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