You Just Can’t Win With the Womb Police

You’d think that the one thing that would please the anti-choice extremists out there would be a nice married white lady who tries hard to get pregnant, succeeds, and then gives birth. What could be better?

Well, apparently there’s a right way and a wrong way to get pregnant, and because this woman used in vitro fertilization, she deserves to be fired from her job at a Catholic school.

Must we reiterate? It isn’t about life. It isn’t about babies. It’s about social control.

via Broadsheet.

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The woman’s story, in her own words, can be found here.

She says that numerous other people who have worked at the school have had children via in-vitro fertilization, including a current member of the Board of Trustees.

And then there’s this: (quote taken from her website)

One teacher (from Xavier) called me and told me he was so upset about this that he went to talk to the principal at Xavier High School and told him that he had had a vasectomy and what was the principal going to do about that? Fire him, too? Well, he wasn’t fired.

Something pretty rotten is going on.

I’m so sick of hearing people surprised when their religion bites them in the ass. This woman is surprised that a large, uncaring bureaucracy notorious for immortality screws her over because of some silly rule borne from tortured reasoning?

The Inquisition’s here and it’s here to stay, Kelly.

Years ago, I was offered an admin-type job at the Founders Inn (Pat Roberts enclave). It was a good job, but the catch was that I would have to sign a morality agreement. I didn’t have to convert but I would have to agree to be a teetotaler and otherwise live a good and upstanding life. I was young, I had no kids, and we were having a helluva good time on the weekends. Giving up alcohol was not in the cards for me then (or now really). Its not prohibited by my own belief system or religion. I briefly considered signing the agreement and just keeping my personal life to myself, but I figured that would only last for so long. And really, I didn’t think I should have to hide that part of my life, I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong (still don’t).

So I passed on the job. I figured it was their party, and those were their rules, and they were giving me the head’s up right from the start. It was an entity that was not separate and distinct from religion, it was an entity who’s sole purpose was the support of the religion. Who was I to question that? Even though my own belief did not preclude alcohol?

I found a job somewhere else that still let me partake in happy hour.

I realize that this is not quite the same thing as this woman is going through, but often when you get a teaching job you are expected to uphold certain standards. If you get a teaching job in the Catholic schools, you are going to have to maintain Catholic standards. And the Catholic church has some strigent rules about procreation that even a lot of Catholics don’t like.

I would have a HUGE problem with this if this was a public school that had done this. But the Catholic Schools are there to teach Catholic doctrine. They get to set their standards. And we can choose not to work for them or send our kids there if we don’t like those standards.

What I don’t like is that the rules are applied inconsistently.

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