Catholic diocese denies illegal action in firing teacher who received IVF – VIDEO

inability to have children is one of the factors for church annulment. Abuse whether physical or otherwise is not a factor. I got pregnant in 1981 with my first child, as a single mother I got sacked (no law in them days against being a single mom) In 1992 as I lay in a hospital bed half dead from beating from ex-husband, was told by p.p. to forgive. 2012 and 50 need no-one to dictate my life, church or anyone.

I believe that the inability to have children is one of the few accepted criteria for annulment of a marriage in the RCC.

How many men have this experience? "at my interview, my employer asked me when I was going to start a family and how many kids I was going to have. After I got pregnant with my first son, she asked me when I was going to have another child. So she made it a very personal issue from the get-go.” That's what discrimination on the basis of sex used to look like, but in this case the employer seemed to be looking for a woman likely to become pregnant--the opposite of most discrimination. Would they fire any married woman who was not pregnant early and often?

Congratulations, Seanomelb! My first grandson is due in July.

Those religious zealots who object to in-vitro fertilisation are ingrate throw backs. I suppose intravenous drips or manufactured drugs are also unethical. As the grandfather of twin boys I will state that in-vitro fertilisation is a miracle of modern science and made thousands of parents and grandparents very happy people.

PhlutiePhan seems to think it's perfectly acceptable for the church to interfere in an individual's life and deny them the same legal protections as others. Which is interesting, considering that's what communists did in the Soviet Union. You lived according to their dictates, or you did not get a decent place to live, food enough to eat and a job. And in Communist China, the government gets to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body, as well, just like the commie-christians want to do. Obviously, some people have a problem with Democracy and self-determination and want to end it for everyone they disagree with.

Medical scientists estimate that 60% of fertilized ova never implant in uterine walls and therefore never result in pregnancy, so the idea that IVF "throws away" fertilized ova, even if it were true, would not make it different from what nature does with no help at all from science. Are women sinners when their bodies spontaneously expel fertilized ova? During breastfeeding also, the uterus expels any fertilized ova, and women have been breastfeeding since the human race began. A "grave, immoral" sin? As in the conflict between advocates of evolution and creationism or the heliocentric and the geocentric system, RC rejects a benefit of science that it ought to see as a blessing.

And no doubt this Diocese accepts US Federal Government money from US taxpayers?

The "octomom" played table tennis and eight of the ping pong balls stuck to the walls of her womb. While this is laudable in the eyes of those who think that the little zygots can be thrown away, the Church has consistently stated to the negative. IVF means that you are playing "Russian Roulette" with tiny fertilized eggs. So, how could the Church allow her to be a role model in light of her public stance against the Church? I believe that she is a sinner. However in the current clime of the media, she is a saint. That is why Princess Diana is a saint and Mother Theresa is a sinner.

The Roman church has kept control over the wombmen for eons of time to control every aspect of their being especially their fertility. It might be legal under man made laws but not lawful under Universal law.

The bishops have “problems” with seventy year old nuns who have dedicated their lives to the church, problems with IVF mothers, and this week, problems with the Girl Scouts. Who's next? One thing is for sure, if there had been more females in church leadership during the cases of worldwide child abuse, it would have ended and it began and dealt with as it was...crimes. So boys, "Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's(or sister’s) eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

She will lose this case,not on any specific merit,but because she will find as many others ,that she is an "At will" employee-that is she serves at the will of her employer.