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Women Claim They Had Abortions Out of Fear.(Washington, D.C. Fire Department under investigation)(Brief Article)
As NRL News goes to press, the D.C. Fire Department is embroiled in a burgeoning controversy over the claims (as the Washington Times reported) that three women "had abortions because they were threatened with [job] termination, in addition to a rookie who terminated her pregnancy out of fear."
Medic union leader Kenneth Lyons initially held a press conference August 30 to allege that as rookies the three women were told they could not take leave if they became pregnant, and must have an abortion if they wanted to retain their jobs, the Times reported.
"This is disgusting to me," Lyons said, "that this could happen in this day and age, in an agency that vows first and foremost to do no harm."
Within a week of those allegations, a local television station, WUSA, reported that Fire Chief Ronnie Few had also sent out letters to female applicants who wished to be fire fighters or emergency medical workers that they must have pregnancy tests. Any job offers will be "held in abeyance" if the test is positive, the letter said, according to the television report. The following day (September 6), the Washington Post reported that D.C. ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Women Claim They Had Abortions Out of Fear.(Washington, D.C. Fire...