Teacher Fired For IVF Treatment

Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Contributor

Milwaukee, WI (AHN) - Kelly Romenesko, a French teacher at two Roman Catholic schools in Appleton, was fired when she and her husband decided to start a family using in vitro fertilization.

The Catholic School system claimed that Romenesko violated a provision of her employment contract saying a teacher has to act in accordance with Catholic doctrine which holds IVF as morally wrong as it replaces the "natural" conjugal union between husband and wife and often results in destruction of embryos.

Though couple used their own eggs and sperm and none of the embryos were destroyed in the process, the church forbids such donations and condemns all forms of experimentation on human embryos, said her lawyer James C. Jones.

Romenesko, 37, has filed a discrimination complaint against Appleton Catholic Educational System, Inc./Xavier, which runs seven Catholic schools in Appleton.