Judge slashes damages awarded to Indiana teacher fired for undergoing in vitro fertilization
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A federal judge has significantly reduced the nearly $2 million in damages awarded to a former teacher fired by a Roman Catholic diocese for trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization.
The Journal Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1ALs2B7 ) that Monday's decision decreased Emily Herx's $1.9 million judgment in her civil rights lawsuit to just less than $544,000.
Herx taught at a diocese school. A federal jury in Fort Wayne found last month that diocese officials discriminated against her when they declined to renew her contract in 2011 because she had undergone IVF.
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The diocese argued that church teachings say the medical procedure is gravely evil and never justifiable. In vitro fertilization involves mixing an egg and sperm in a laboratory dish and transferring the resulting embryo into the womb.
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Information from: The Journal Gazette, http://www.journalgazette.net