Small business sued for abortion stance

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A doctor fired his receptionist because she refused his order to get an abortion, the woman claims in court.

Christina Garcia sued Dr. Meenakshi S. Prabhakar and ID Doctors P.A., in Dallas County Court.

Garcia claims she told Prabhakar on March 3, 2011 that she was pregnant.

"Dr. Prabkahar told plaintiff that (she) would have to have an abortion to keep her job," the complaint states. "When plaintiff refused, (she) was fired on March 7, 2011."

Garcia adds: "Dr. Prabhakar offered to pay for the abortion and for college expenses provided that plaintiff would take birth control pills."

Prabhakar is board certified in infectious diseases, with a subspecialty in bone, joint and surgical infections, according to IDD's website.

Garcia claims she was " harassed because of her pregnancy during her employment which subjected her to a hostile environment."

She seeks actual and punitive damages for discrimination and harassment.
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http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/09/49141.htm

Texas is a right to work state where you can fire an employee for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason. Should a small businessman be forced to keep a pregnant teenager as his receptionist? Should an conservative businessman be able to fire a teenaged receptionist if she decides to have an abortion rather than carry a pregnancy to term? Should the gal in this lawsuit be able to collect punitive damages if she prevails or is recovering lost compensation enough?
 
JollyRoger said:
Should a small businessman be forced to keep a pregnant teenager as his receptionist? Should an conservative businessman be able to fire a teenaged receptionist if she decides to have an abortion rather than carry a pregnancy to term? Should the gal in this lawsuit be able to collect punitive damages if she prevails or is recovering lost compensation enough?
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He should have fire her without offering to do abortion. Actually why at all hire women if they can get pregnant and sue you for money? If I were a small businessman I would not do it (especially in Russia where there are a lot of benefits you have to provide if your employee get pregnant).
 
classical_hero said:
I thought you were pro choice and it was the woman' choice and that men had no say in it.
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I'm afraid this isn't really about abortion. It's about how ridiculous it is how one can still discriminate women like this, just because they will be unable to work for a year (or two, or less). It's not their fault they can get pregnant and men can't.
 
strijder20 said:
I'm afraid this isn't really about abortion. It's about how ridiculous it is how one can still discriminate women like this, just because they will be unable to work for a year (or two, or less). It's not their fault they can get pregnant and men can't.
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Well, woman indeed should have every right to keep her child if she wants. But it does not mean her employer have to take responsibility.

Woman have to make choice and to accept responsibility for the choice done. If she can not work for a year then employer (especially small business) certainly is not obliged to keep her and pay any money.

Yes, the choice is hers. As well as responsibility.
 
That stance combined with a growing percentage of women wanting careers might lead to reduced birth rates and China-like problems: the ratio of retired people versus tax-paying people getting too high.
 
strijder20 said:
That stance combined with a growing percentage of women wanting careers might lead to reduced birth rates and China-like problems: the ratio of retired people versus tax-paying people getting too high.
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Or it will lead to woman returning to traditional model (man makes money, woman either does not work or take the jobs which compatible with pregnancy). The generous benefits to pregnant employee certainly works in socialist environment but it is hard to convince business especially small one they should share this attitude.
 
strijder20 said:
That stance combined with a growing percentage of women wanting careers might lead to reduced birth rates and China-like problems: the ratio of retired people versus tax-paying people getting too high.
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People say the same about Germany, but they forget that you don't just need more births. You also need to educate more people, and you need more jobs and apprenticeships. If birthrates rise it doesn't necessarily mean you'll have more workers in 20 years, it can mean you'll just have more unemployment. The current situation in the USA is that job growth isn't keeping up with population growth.
 
I guess that this doctor really had too much money.
 
Dreadnought said:
Employer rights. Moving on.
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Employee rights, moving on?

I mean, ignoring the abortion stupidity since it's really not very relevant, in most civilized places in the world it would be illegal to fire an employee for being pregnant, unless there was some bona fide reason why they could no longer perform their job.

It's not a human right so much as it is "lets not be jerks to women".
 
Under current Texas law, the woman has no case. I disagree with it, but then I understand that Texas has idiotic laws anyway. :lol:
 
Clearly, the unborn fetus should be able to take the employer to court for attempted murder. Isn't there some law against soliciting a murder, offering to finance it, and hiring a hitman? If the fetus is unable to bring the suit on it own, then it is the right and proper place of the state to step in on its behalf.

Also, the fetus' individual right to life is being threatened, and the full force of Congress should be brought to bear on this - Terry Schiavo style.

Naturally, I expect to see Republicans spearheading the necessary actions against this job creator:
"Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed," the draft platform declares. "We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."[/Republican Party Platform]
 
If this guy gets away with this, than I hate Texas even more than I used to.

Granted I got laid off because I was on short-term disability (not that they stated it that way), so it's not great up here in the evergrey state either
 
Dreadnought said:
Employer rights. Moving on.
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Wait a sec, you're a conservative Catholic aren't you? In that case can I assume your joking?

If the fetus is not a person, this does make perfect sense. After all, its just a parasite preventing the woman from working, as pro-choice people say here. Different when she's being "Coerced"? If that's really all it is, I mean, this makes sense.

If a fetus DOES have human rights, as I hold it, this businessman should spend the rest of his life behind bars for trying to encourage a woman to commit murder. Its not even because he fired her, but because he threatened to fire her "If she didn't get an abortion." That, he told her he would fire her unless she commited murder for him. He should be behind bars for the rest of his life.

In real life, even without the right laws being on the books, I'd still convict him because I don't give a crap. This woman almost got fired for not murdering. I hope they leave him broke and on the street for the sick excuse of a human being he is.
 
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