{"id":13073,"date":"2012-09-18T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2012-09-18T18:11:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:11:36","slug":"catholic-teacher-fired-over-in-vitro-supported-by-usual-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/09\/catholic-teacher-fired-over-in-vitro-supported-by-usual-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic teacher fired over in vitro supported by usual suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) \u2014 Two national groups are throwing their support behind a former parochial school\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.local12.com\/news\/state\/story\/Two-groups-support-Catholic-teacher-fired-over-in\/1ptWjaXb00CkZWFsA_GLLQ.cspx?rss=31#\" rel=\"nofollow\">teacher<\/a>\u00a0who claims she was fired for trying to get pregnant using in vitro fertilization.<\/p>\n<p>The American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American Civil Liberties Union filed friends of the court briefs Monday supporting Emily Herx.<\/p>\n<p>Herx sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in federal court in Fort Wayne in April, claiming she was discriminated against for a disability when her teaching contract wasn&#8217;t renewed. Herx suffers from infertility, which is protected under federal law.<\/p>\n<p>She underwent in vitro fertilization, which is banned under Roman Catholic doctrine. When news of Herx&#8217;s treatment came to light, diocesan officials decided not to renew her contract. The Equal Employment Opportunities\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.local12.com\/news\/state\/story\/Two-groups-support-Catholic-teacher-fired-over-in\/1ptWjaXb00CkZWFsA_GLLQ.cspx?rss=31#\" rel=\"nofollow\">Commission<\/a>\u00a0ruled in her favor in January. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.local12.com\/news\/state\/story\/Two-groups-support-Catholic-teacher-fired-over-in\/1ptWjaXb00CkZWFsA_GLLQ.cspx?rss=31\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0No word yet who is going to represent any children still in freezers or who died in the womb after multi implantation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I do wonder just exactly how infertility is specifically protected under Federal law?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) \u2014 Two national groups are throwing their support behind a former parochial school\u00a0teacher\u00a0who claims she was fired for trying to get pregnant using in vitro fertilization.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13077,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions\/13077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}