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5 Months Pregnant, I Face Losing My Job And Health Care For Choosing Not To Get A COVID-19 Injection
The Federalist ^ | 08/23/2021 | Lori Fisher

Posted on 08/23/2021 6:40:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The state of Oregon is forcing me to contradict what I think is best for myself and my baby or face losing my job and health coverage when I need it most.

I am an Oregon state employee, but from the looks of things, I won’t be for too long. Kate Brown, the governor of Oregon, has announced a mandate for all state executive agency employees to have full COVID-19 vaccination by October 18 or six weeks after full approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), whichever is later.

I am currently five months pregnant. Under this mandate, I stand to lose my job and health care if I don’t allow a needle in my arm, even though the long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccine are unknown.

Yes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now recommending the vaccine for pregnant women. The CDC says the risks of COVID-19 for unborn children and their mothers are greater than the unknown risks of the vaccine. But how can they know, if the long-term risks of the vaccine are unknown? These COVID treatments are, after all, only several months old themselves.

According to the CDC, the percent of preterm births among women with COVID-19 was 12.17, compared to 9.91 percent among women without COVID-19. That’s only a difference of 2.26 percent. Further, these numbers are not broken down by age and underlying health factors. In fact, these numbers are quite small when compared to the relevance of other factors like stress.

Finding another financially comparable job at this point in my pregnancy will be virtually impossible. It is a terrible decision to make between financial security — a roof over my family’s heads, food on the table, being able to pay for doctor bills — and putting something in my body that could ultimately affect me and my unborn child in ways I do not know.

What I do know is that the CDC has reported no COVID-19 deaths for women my age (age 30-39) in the state of Oregon in either 2020 or 2021. What’s more, few have been hospitalized. At the highest point, the rate of weekly hospitalizations for women in their thirties even being hospitalized was just over seven out of 100,000. That is not even discerning between underlying health factors.

I understand my level of risk from the virus as a healthy 35-year-old woman and I understand that the long-term risk of the vaccine is unknown. My personal decision for my body and my unborn child is based on my conclusion that the unknown long-term risk of the vaccine outweighs the risk of the virus for someone my age at my level of health.

I was hesitant to write this, but as an Oregon state employee, the governor’s new mandate threatens me with “personnel consequences” up to termination. I am being forced to either contradict what I think is best for myself and my baby or face losing my job, income, and health coverage when I need it most.

In the state of Oregon, employers are compelled by law to cover abortion in health-care plans, but the state can terminate an employee for not getting a vaccine that is not fully vetted by the FDA. It’s worth noting the social and political pressure currently on the FDA to approve the vaccine soon. Hopefully, the rush will not diminish the necessary thoroughness of their evaluation and testing.

For my entire adult life, I have served the people. I gave 10 years of military service in the U.S. Army, serving as an information systems specialist in Fort Hood, Texas (during which I completed a 15-month deployment to Iraq), South Korea, and finally the White House Communications Agency, where I directly supported the office of the president of the United States, who at the time was President Obama.

Immediately after serving in the U.S. Army, I went on to public service in the state of Oregon as an IT systems administrator. I have been an Oregon public servant for seven years now. Most of those years have been under the governance of Kate Brown.

I find it unbelievable that someone could think abortion is simply a woman’s bodily “right to choose” while denying her right to choose whether to have a needle stuck in her arm. After 17 years, is this is how my public service should end?


Lori is a mom and an IT Systems Administrator. She is also a 10 year US Army veteran.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; mandate; oregon; pregnancy; tyranny; vaccination; vaccine
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To: stanne

I said I think.

A quick internet search reveals a few things:

https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/07/30/health-care-unions-say-no-vaccine-mandates-but-urge-vaccination/5408252001/

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/08/16/oc-sheriffs-department-fire-authority-unions-oppose-coronavirus-vaccine-mandate/

There are hundreds more it seems many unions are backing their people.


61 posted on 08/23/2021 10:35:23 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Fury

>>> Do you have a source for this claim?

Here’s one. It took me 2 minutes to find.

https://lichtnahrung2015.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/shocking-new-study-reveals-covid-vaccine-terminates-4-out-of-5-pregnancies-via-spontaneous-abortions/

NOW.. besides the CDC whom we know is lying about everything, and scrubbing VAERS reports, do YOU have any sources to refute this?


62 posted on 08/23/2021 10:48:23 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Persevero
Isn’t she in a union? They should help.

I doubt she is in a union. The article says she is an IT systems admin. That job is usually classified as professional and exempt from DOL overtime rules.

63 posted on 08/23/2021 11:06:26 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: scouter

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughcatholiclenses/2021/01/if-any-drug-tested-on-hek-293-is-immoral-goodbye-modern-medicine/


64 posted on 08/23/2021 11:06:26 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Persevero

I got an email from our Union today. They agree and support Gov Murphy’s Mandate. The Union is not about it’s members and hasn’t been since at least the 80s. Probably before that time. I only have a few more months in NJ.

I can’t retire yet but thankfully because of my husband and his job we moved to Florida. Just a few more months and I’m totally free.


65 posted on 08/23/2021 11:16:38 PM PDT by Twink
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To: Safrguns

Assuming VAERS is scrubbed, and VAERS data was used in the study, how can you have confidence in the numbers in the study which you claim show 4 out of 5 pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions for women vaccinated for COVID-19?


66 posted on 08/23/2021 11:22:36 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Svartalfiar
A ten-year veteran has essentially zero health insurance benefits

The problem this lady has is she likely has made too much money this year to qualify for Obamacare or VA healthcare. If she is eligible for VA, she would likely be way down on the priority list..

67 posted on 08/23/2021 11:29:25 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: Safrguns

In other words, are people claiming the VAERS data is valid when it supports their assertion, and claiming it suspect otherwise?


68 posted on 08/23/2021 11:32:15 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

>>> how can you have confidence in the numbers in the study which you claim show 4 out of 5 pregnancies end...

If you had read the article about this study, you would have seen where they described how CDC results had manipulated totals based on exclusions surrounding semantics... i.e. stillborn vs miscarriage.

The study finding 4 out of 5 DEATHS simply took their raw data, and reported it correctly.... putting back in the DEATHS that the CDC eliminated from their tabulations because it was a stillborn and not a miscarriage.

Even with scrubbed data, the CDC cannot hide the FACT that these clot shots have NOTHING to do with protecting people, and EVERYTHING to do with KILLING THEM!

One day you will give an account for your part in this as well.

Enjoy your paycheck.


69 posted on 08/23/2021 11:40:33 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: SeekAndFind

She can use the VA. They are actually pretty good around where I go


70 posted on 08/23/2021 11:45:49 PM PDT by roving
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To: Safrguns

I see.

My paycheck? That seems to be a common sort of response to people who don’t agree with what a poster says, instead of arguing the facts.

To your original question:

“...do YOU have any sources to refute this?”

Yes - the study itself and am working on that post.


71 posted on 08/23/2021 11:47:22 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

>>> That seems to be a common sort of response to people who don’t agree with what a poster says, instead of arguing the facts.

The FACT is that the FACTS are being LIED about.

Just like you are LYING about your purpose for challenging the study’s authenticity.

You are clearly not interested in investigating this objectively to find the truth. You are here to persuade.

How much do you get for each post?


72 posted on 08/23/2021 11:55:44 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: EEGator

C’mon FRiends. Wether she has a
significant other to help her thru this
is totally irrelevant. She served this
great country of ours. That in itself
deserves my respect. Her primary concern
is the child she’s with, and the ability
to care for that child. She’s caught
between a rock and a hard place. If
anything she’s feeling let down by a
country she swore to defend. She’s been
reduced to a dollar amount in someones’
bank account.
She can, and should leave, the backward
state of Oregon and seek employment at
a company that has more conservative
views. Tough to find, but they’re out
there. She should stand firm in not
getting the shot, forcing getting fired
from her position. She’ll at least have
unemployment compensation, and COBRA
medical.


73 posted on 08/24/2021 12:21:25 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Boomer

That’s the point, the medical professionals are posting the side effects and truth. Scary; very scary.

https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events

Dr. Sterling Williams
4 hours ago

Please be brave. Do not risk it. If you get injured or die after the vial of poison you received, you won’t be working anyway. It’s just going to get worse. It’s dire now; we need people to rise up and say no. Push back. We are not alone! People who will not be forced to vaccinate will help out other people out. Please don’t do it.


74 posted on 08/24/2021 2:58:26 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Fury

This is what was listed in the ‘references’ at the end of the fact sheet:

Blumrick, R. (2021, Feb 27). Potential Risks of COVID Vaccines During Pregnancy. MNI Great Lakes ECHO. MI. Retrieved
Aug 19, 2021, from https://vimeo.com/580443866

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I did go to the vimeo link - it’s an hour long & I did not have time to listen .... the name of this film at vimeo is “20210227_COVID ECHO_Vaccine in Pregnancy_BLUMRICK.mp4”

Hope this helps.


75 posted on 08/24/2021 4:05:29 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
76 posted on 08/24/2021 6:03:41 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the truth is -

We no longer live in a free republic.

We no longer abide by a Constitution.

You no longer have any rights. None.

The sooner we wake up and realize that we are ALREADY in the soup pot, the better our chances of fighting our way back out of it before we boil to death.


77 posted on 08/24/2021 6:37:54 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: airborne

“Make them fire her and go on unemployment.“

They’ve anticipated this..

Unemployment will soon hinge on whether you’ve complied and taken the jab or not.


78 posted on 08/24/2021 6:40:33 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Cboldt; scouter

See scouter’s post :

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3988167/posts?page=10#10


79 posted on 08/24/2021 6:45:54 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000) )
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To: ExTexasRedhead

We can’t see what the comments are though so unless someone happens to be able to login it does us no good.


80 posted on 08/24/2021 7:03:57 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a toxic moral pestilence.)
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