Catholic school teacher fired for... pregnancy?

I just can't understand this. If there is anything that singles the Catholic church out, it is the unwavering conviction that people who are not yet born ought to have the opportunity to make it all the way to birth.

Statistics have shown that economic reasons dominate among women who choose to have abortions. How, exactly, is this school board being pro-life when it is both rendering her unemployed and without health care, and also stigmatizing her as though she is a leper?

One assumes that the rule that teachers must not "violate the tenets of Catholic morality" has a certain amount of leeway. A lot of things violate Catholic morality, and most of us, in small ways, do some of these things every day. That is why we have confessionals.

This woman has made a difficult choice - to become a mother, even though her choice to do so jeopardizes her career and alters her future irrevocably. When confronted with the big picture choices (and not petty fix it in the confessional stuff), she is making exactly the sort of moral decision the church calls on her to make. For this, she is to be punished?

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