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Posted on 10/30/2021 6:04:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pro-choice activists are celebrating an amendment to Portland’s bereavement leave policy that has made it the first local government in the United States to give paid time off to public employees after an abortion. One pro-life group is calling it an unwitting acknowledgment of the loss of life.
The new policy allows public employees to take up to three days of bereavement leave for an abortion or a miscarriage, stillbirth or any other type of pregnancy loss, “irrespective of whether deemed medically necessary,” Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
The city council approved the changes unanimously.
Laura Narefsky, an attorney on the education and workplace justice team at the National Women’s Law Center, told CNBC that Portland is among the first local governments around the world to allow paid leave following pregnancy loss.
“It’s incredibly exciting to see cities see this as an important way to support their workers,” she was quoted as saying. “As employers think about loss in whatever form it appears, they’re signaling that it isn’t the kind of thing we should be second-guessing or requiring people to prove the types of loss we think are deserving or undeserving of time off,” she added.
“It’s important to recognize that employees need time to address their reproductive health needs ... and they may need time to process what they're experiencing,” Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, an abortion advocacy group, was quoted as saying.
“A policy like this is a really important step forward in providing that kind of support to employees and in recognition of the fact that we aren't just robots.”
But it implicitly acknowledges the loss of life, commented Gabriel Vance, director of external affairs for the group Created Equal.
“What they are acknowledging is that abortion is a tragic loss — that somebody dies in an abortion,” she said on social media. “So if you're getting bereavement leave for an abortion, they are acknowledging that there is a loss of someone — that someone died … And who is that? That’s the baby, who is a human being, who is a person. ... They’re trying to normalize abortion, but in that, they’re acknowledging that, like miscarriage, like stillbirth — that it’s tragic.”
Three Boston city councilors have also proposed including a loss of pregnancy in the city’s paid parental leave policy.
In March, Councilors Lydia Edwards, Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George filed an amendment to a city ordinance that allows up to 12 weeks paid leave for parents of newborns, recently adopted children, and those who have experienced a stillbirth, Boston.com reported at the time.
The “loss of pregnancy” would include miscarriages, terminations, instances involving dilation and extraction.
Similarly, the City Council of Waterloo, Iowa, passed a resolution earlier this month calling for the establishment of a paid leave policy for pregnancy and infant loss.
Do they not realize how that undercuts they argument abortion is nothing with moral or ethical considerations?
Don’t hire leftists.
I dont know where you get the idea that leftists think embryos and fetuses are not living beings.
That was an issue 30 years ago.
They know that abortion is a killing.
It just doesn’t matter to them. It is not important to them.
Proving that preborn are life and human does not cut the mustard because they know it is a death.
This is just nuts. And it reminds me of the old joke where a guy murders his parents, then demands sympathy because he’s now an orphan.
“ One pro-life group is calling it an unwitting acknowledgment of the loss of life”
My first thought as well but probably has more to do with libtards being lazy and wanting to get paid for nothing.
Will they allow bereavement leave for appendectomies, tonsillectomies, or haircuts? Or are they suggesting that abortions are something more than just removing unwanted tissue?
“ This is just nuts. And it reminds me of the old joke where a guy murders his parents, then demands sympathy because he’s now an orphan.
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That’s not a joke and was used by the Mendendez brothers in CA after they slaughtered their parents with a shotgun for money.
So why the bereavement leave?
Why would you grieve for someone YOU JUST MURDERED?
It’s beyond comprehension how people who make these decisions get elected. God help us.
There was a death in the family but lets just call it a woman’s right to choose, State Sanctioned Homicide just sounds so wrong
They get elected through fraud.
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what makes you so sure they were elected ?
I wonder when the last time was we had an election that wasn't manipulated, and many are appointed bureaucrats
"It’s beyond comprehension how people who make these decisions get elected. God help us."
What makes you so sure they were elected ?
I wonder when the last time was we had an election that wasn't manipulated, and many are appointed bureaucrats!
never have (knowingly) and never will.
I guess they see it as a necessary killing. But they know it is a jilling.
And it sucks more money and bennies from the establishment.
what makes you so sure they were elected ?
I wonder when the last time was we had an election that wasn’t manipulated, and many are appointed burkilling.
zzzzzzzzzz
You and me both. Leftists have taken over many roles in elections and town offices. And voting machines....
Bereavement is a state entered after someone dies.
So they are saying an abortion is the death of a human.
Justifiable homicide?
So kill you child and we’ll give you time off to celebrate.
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