Fired over in vitro?
Ah, thanks Mr. Lawyer, sir, I was confused until now...MILWAUKEE -- Kelly Romenesko was teaching French at two Roman Catholic schools in Appleton when she and her husband decided to start a family using in vitro fertilization.
After asking for some time off in September 2004 to complete the procedure, the lifelong Catholic gave her boss an update about a month later: She was pregnant.
But only days after that, she said, she got a pink slip by the Catholic school system. Administrators, according to her lawyer James C. Jones, claimed Romenesko violated a provision of her employment contract saying a teacher has to act in accordance with Catholic doctrine.
"All she was trying to do was have a child, which of course should be a wonderful thing," Jones said Tuesday. More...
































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