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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see what the big deal is. She chose to teach at a Catholic school. Catholic schools exist to spread the Catholic faith to the next generation. Any teaching position at a Catholic school generally involves a religious component -- the whole idea behind parochial schools is that the religious aspect is pervasive, its not meant to be confined to the religion class. Any school that is serious about teaching children the tenets of the religion has to at the very least enforce those tenets with the teachers who are either directly or indirectly supposed to be imparting them to the students. If the school does not, the students and wider community will think that the school, an arm of the Catholic Church, doesnot take its own doctrine that seriously. That is a huge problem, and directly undermines the faith that these schools are trying to instill. 
Freedom of religion is a great thing, and for it to exist, religions need to have the basic freedom to fire employees who don't follow their rules. I would also support an Orthodox Jewish school firing a teacher who didn't circumcise his/her sons.[/quote]

BUT IVF is such a private thing.  It's not like she was teaching her students that IVF was a great way to make a baby.  Why did the school need to go digging around into her private life?   What a witch hunt!
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It sounds like people asked her the standard innocuous questions about "when are you going to have a second?" It doesn't sound like they were rooting through her trash looking for proof on EOBs. I'm an IVF vetern, and like it or not, there are people out there who believe it is immoral. If you happen to work for those people, why the heck would you blatantly tell people you were doing something that the organization specifically does NOT sanction? As a PP said, if it comes down to documentation, get the RE to write a vague note about ongoing treatment. When people keep asking the question about more kids, just say, "I'm having some medical issues right now." Period. By going into detail about something that is specifically prohibited by her organization's moral code, she took a risk, and she lost.[/quote]

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