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Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro FertilizationINDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana teacher who says she was fired from a Roman Catholic school for using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant is suing in a case that could set up a legal showdown over reproductive and religious rights.
Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
Wow. I hope she owns their asses on this. Unconscionable. As the father of two test tube babies, this pisses me off to no end.
Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
Wow. I hope she owns their asses on this. Unconscionable. As the father of two test tube babies, this pisses me off to no end.
Private school. If there was any provision in her contract in regards to an ethics clause or something of the sort, I have no issue in terms of legal recourse here. While I may find a belief that a schools standard for firing a teacher should be something like this to be idiotic, I also think that as a private school that's well within their rights.
Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
Wow. I hope she owns their asses on this. Unconscionable. As the father of two test tube babies, this pisses me off to no end.
I think you're missing the point. Unless she is a contracted employee, she can be fired because her eyes are blue. It doesn't appear that firing someone for in vitro fertilization is protected under either U.S. Civil Rights laws or Indiana Civil Rights laws.
Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
Wow. I hope she owns their asses on this. Unconscionable. As the father of two test tube babies, this pisses me off to no end.
The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church knows no bounds...
There is no good reason for their posture regarding artificial insemination. Who the **** do they think they are suggesting that it is an immoral act?
Two people who can't otherwise bear children taking extraordinary measures to get pregnant is an immoral act?
Wanna bet their "Catholic Hospitals" would cash the parent's checks for child birth?
You hate religious people, This should make you happy that it's harder for them to procreate than you. :shrug:
Oh I get it. But I hope like hell she beats their asses in court. Of course the Archdiocese will file bankruptcy to avoid paying in a typical Catholic sleaze fashion.
Sues for what? Unless she was protected by an employment contract she has no lawsuit at all.
Oh, congrats on successful parentage. :applaud
Last paragraph of the OP article;It doesn't appear that firing someone for in vitro fertilization is protected under either U.S. Civil Rights laws or Indiana Civil Rights laws.
Should separation of church and state mean that religious organisations are be free to break the law? Why would that apply to employment discrimination laws and not all the others? Can't they just say "We're religious. This court doesn't apply to us at all." and walk out?Since the Catholic Church condemns IVF as inherently evil acts, should SCOTUS rule in favor of this woman, it's a definite blow to separation of church and state.
You hate religious people,
This should make you happy that it's harder for them to procreate than you. :shrug:
Private school. If there was any provision in her contract in regards to an ethics clause or something of the sort, I have no issue in terms of legal recourse here. While I may find a belief that a schools standard for firing a teacher should be something like this to be idiotic, I also think that as a private school that's well within their rights.
As if morality ever stopped religious people from doing anything. Crusades, hundreds of thousands of child molestation cases, thousands of child molesters in the HCC clergy and suicide bombers in Islam are just a small list of the things which prove that it really wouldn't be that hard for the religious to engage in the oh-so serious act of procreation. For that matter, it wouldn't be "harder".
Patently false. But it won't stop you from making stuff up again now will it?
My entire family is Catholic. My oldest sister was Dominican.
However, I loathe organized religion. Especially the Catholic Church and all its blatant hypocrisy. And I'm not a fab of Bible thumpers. I have no problem with those who believe and mind their own business.
It's when **** like this happens that I get my ass in the air.
Having been through, and watched my spouse suffer through 5 failed attempts at AI, I can assure you that you are as wrong you usually are. I don't wish that on any family.
You should try to quote me in full to get the proper context. :shrug:
You should try to stop making **** up. There was nothing taken out of context there.
You claimed I hate religious people. That's a lie. And then you made it worse with your additional asinine comment. No shock there.
You've said some pretty nasty things about religion, which are made up of..... "religious people". I'm sorry if I misread you, but you seem quite bitter, and quick to insult people simply based on who they worship.
And you would be wrong. Again. I have zero respect for organized religion and those who pimp it.
And why should I be bitter about it? I mean imagine if a company harbored known pedophiles, and moved the employee around to create more victims one of which turned out to be your son and then filed bankruptcy when they got sued?
And you don't quite understand why this might piss people off? Really?
Federal discrimination laws make it illegal for employers to discriminate against employees and job applicants in any aspect of employment based on age, disability, national origin, race, religion, genetics or sex (gender).
So if a manager at an rc cola plant covers up an employee lacing its soda cans with rat poison, we should be pissed off at all of soda kind... Interesting. I think the catholic church had a huge problem on it's hands and they handled it like idiots....
But I'm not ready to start gunning down all catholics in the streets because of it... Like I said, you seem rather intolerant of the religious. :shrug:
Clearly there is a reading comprehension problem here. Might I suggest you get some help with that?
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