Pro-Life EMT Sues Employer

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, May 9 — A Chicago-area emergency medical technician who was fired for refusing to transport a woman to an abortion site has filed a religious-discrimination lawsuit against her employer.

The American Center for Law and Justice filed the suit on the woman's behalf in U.S. District Court on May 7.

Last August, Stephanie Adamson, 30, and her crewmate received a non-emergency call to take a woman having abdominal pain from Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago to an abortion site, the newspaper reported.

Adamson told Superior Ambulance Services, her employer, that she couldn't per form the task because of her pro-life religious beliefs.

Another crew was dispatched to the hospital and Adamson was fired.

Governor Signs Pro-Life Bills

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7 — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has signed several pro-life bills that will become law July 1.

According to the Associated Press, the legislation, which the governor signed May 6, will allow health-care workers to opt out of per forming abor tions if they have moral objections; prohibit doctors or other workers to let a baby die if he or she sur vives an abor tion; allow prosecutors to pursue wrongful-death charges in cases where the fetus could have sur vived outside the womb (this law went into effect immediately); and require doctors to file repor ts with the state for patients who experienced complications from abortion.