Posted on 04/24/2019 12:58:11 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Woman Gets Uber Driver Fired For Refusing To Take Her To Get An Abortion. Now She's Looking To Sue Him.
A 20-year-old college student in upstate New York reported an Uber driver for refusing to take her to get an abortion. According to the women’s account, which was reported on by Yahoo! Style (UK), the ride-sharing company canned the pro-lifer.
But now the woman is looking to take legal against the driver.
“I’m in college in upstate NY and I don’t have a car on campus because it’s expensive,” she wrote in a message posted to Reddit earlier this month.
“I’m 20 years old and I found out I was pregnant and subsequently decided I wanted an abortion because I’m in no position to care for a child,” the woman said.
She found a clinic about an hour from her university, because the nearby Planned Parenthood had a schedule that didn’t work for her. “Because I don’t have a car, I rely on Uber and [L]yft to get me places,” she said.
The student then recounted her interaction with the Uber driver, who attempted to dissuade the woman from choosing abortion before telling her he could not drive her to the clinic.
“My appointment was at 11:30am so at 9:58am my Uber arrived and he immediately seemed uncomfortable. After about five minutes in the car, he asked, ‘are we going to a planned parenthood?’ I said no (because we weren’t), but it set off alarm bells that he would even ask that,” she recounted. “The destination I put in was just the name of the doctor and the address of the clinic, there was nothing that would suggest it was an abortion clinic. After a few more minutes he asked, ‘are we going to an abortion clinic?’”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
Maybe she ought to be more careful how she f*cks around....
He would have the address from the Uber thingy. She either told him or he knows the address to the abortion clinic.
Why wouldn't you know this?
Obviously, you're not connected with helping a pregnancy support center.
By "picked up" I believe she meant he picked up the phone, as opposed to her parents.
There a three sides to every story. We aren’t even close to hearing the truth of this mater.
I used Lyft and with Lyft one always puts I the destination address before a driver is assigned.
If a Muslim cab driver can refuse clients with service dogs due to his religion, why can’t a Christian Uber driver refuse clients due to their religion?
Yeah, because "only" trying to help them be born alive rather than killed is not enough.
Uh, that’s YOUR version of the RIGHT THING. So, YOU should do the RIGHT THING and take care of other people’s kids, or YOU are not doing the RIGHT THING!
I pray one day abortion won't have to be made illegal because it will be UNTHINKABLE.
With uber you also enter the address before a driver accepts. (presumably - i no longer use it since that incident). With uber the driver doesn’t see that address until pickup though. Do lyft drivers get to see the destination before they accept?
Iirc uber’s justification for that policy was to prevent high ride refusal to ‘undesirable’ neighborhoods.
“The free exercise there of” Protects the muslims for all their horrors why not this Uber driver?
No, the RIGHT THING to do would be for a 20 year old woman that doesn’t want any kids to keep her pants on, or at least use some form of birth control. Murder isn’t the answer.
Think of the NYPD, f'rinstance. Or, do you think those girly men living in the lofts in the SoHo district would be willing to drive the trucks which supply their favorite bodega? Even I, in 2-1 or more Trump margin voting rural Pennsylvania has to deal with liberal @$$holes sometimes.
PPPPPPP (ask if you dont know)
“He said ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t take you the rest of the way. I can take you back to [my city], but you won’t be able to find another Uber out here,’” the post read.
The woman said she finally got ahold of her boyfriend, who advised her to call the clinic and inform them she’d be late. (What a great guy.)
“I got out of the car and immediately started crying,” the student wrote. “I called my parents each three times but they didn’t pick up. Then I called my boyfriend and he picked up right away. He managed to calm me down and told me to let the clinic know what was happening and to call some local cab companies.”
The driver then “hung around for about 10-15 minutes and asked once more if I wanted to go back with him,” she said, but noted that she “declined.”
This evil person should not be allowed anywhere near children after murdering her own child.
“The RIGHT THING would be following through in helping them once they are brought into this earth and not stopping our concern at the point of birth”
Umm, if I wanted to hear leftie talking points, I could go to almost any other site on the internet.
What an evil woman.
It does say -- in the other iteration of this story which was on Free Republic --- that he took her to a place where she could make phone calls, a location where there was an antique shop and a gas station with a pay phone. They were beyond cell phone range.
After he waited around another 10-15 minutes, and she TWICE refused his offer to take her back home, the other article says her cab arrived 15 minutes later. So he didn't kick her out, as you say: he took her to a place where she could make phone calls, repeatedly offered her a ride back home, and then left when she refused help.
Anything beyond that, and she probably would have brought charges against him for stalking. The article does say she got him fired and now she's trying to search around and find something she can charge him with.
So she's not only not grateful for his attempt to spare her and her child from the violence of abortion; she's vindictive.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.