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Offline SkyTrekTower

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Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« on: April 25, 2012, 11:56:50 pm »
I'm not sure what to think on this case.  On one hand, she probably had to agree to live a "Catholic" life when she was hired.  On the other hand, I don't see how this is immoral.

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INDIANAPOLIS -- 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's lawsuit accuses the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend and St. Vincent de Paul school in Fort Wayne of discrimination for her firing last June. Herx, 31, of Hoagland, Ind., says that the church pastor told her she was a "grave, immoral sinner" and that a scandal would erupt if anyone learned she had undergone in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

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Isn't trying all options to have a kid pro-life? /smartass
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2012, 12:12:45 am »
Oh if she was married and her and her husband were trying to have a kid....they have no legs to stand on morally.

Ironbite-legally...it's more murky.
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2012, 12:58:36 am »
but she could have adopted some kids, we don't take to kindly to those unnatural methods!
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2012, 03:49:38 am »
I thought the catholic church was ok with in-vitro fertilization. I am sure there was some message from the Vatican about it, although I might be mistaken.

From a legal point of view though in all these anti-women cases the Catholics have been getting up to. Wouldn't the catholic church have to prove that such actions like in-vitro fertilization and contraception actually violate their religious doctrine? As in prove in their bible and official decrees from the Vatican and the pope that such things are truly against the church?
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2012, 10:25:06 am »
Popletine ruled a little while ago that IVF is AGAINST GAWD AND IS AN ABOMINATION AND IF YOU CAN'T GET PREGGERS IN THE BED ROOM THEN BY ME YOU SHOULDN'T BE PREGGERS AT ALL!

Ironbite-it's even in the article if you read it.
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2012, 07:12:08 pm »
How did the school learn about this?  Did the woman post a billboard somewhere?
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2012, 07:18:05 pm »
Quote from: Old Viking on April 26, 2012, 07:12:08 pm
How did the school learn about this?  Did the woman post a billboard somewhere?

They found out after she told the school administration that she was using sick days for treatment.
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2012, 08:42:50 pm »
Quote from: ironbite on April 26, 2012, 10:25:06 am
Popletine ruled a little while ago that IVF is AGAINST GAWD AND IS AN ABOMINATION AND IF YOU CAN'T GET PREGGERS IN THE BED ROOM THEN BY ME YOU SHOULDN'T BE PREGGERS AT ALL!

Ironbite-it's even in the article if you read it.

Was this before or after saying people who can't get pregnant aren't allowed to married? And I don't think adopting counts as "having kids" for them either.
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2012, 08:57:35 pm »
The Catholic Church is clinging to traditions that are far outdated.
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2012, 05:51:15 pm »
This honestly doesn't surprise me. I went to a catholic high school, and once had my religion teacher compare surrogate mothers to Josef Mengele. No shit. Of course, the same teacher also showed us a video that claimed abortion doctors are actually in a worldwide conspiracy to provide aborted baby fetuses to cannibals, and thought there was a liberal atheist conspiracy to take over the courts and outlaw christianity. This woman taught religion at a catholic school for like 30 years.

So, yeah, catholics can be batshit, especially over surrogate motherhood.
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Re: Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2012, 04:56:12 am »
My entire family was RC, and I've honestly never heard of this being an issue with anyone before... My dad never seemed to have any problems with it, and he almost became a priest when he was younger...
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