by Conduit For Action
Many corporations are mandating their employees take the Covid-19 vaccinations as a condition of staying employed. President Biden is pushing for even more corporations to force the shot on their employees.
As of August 21, about 3 in 4 pregnant women aged 18-49 were unvaccinated for Covid even though professional say pregnant women face a higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease and pregnancy complications following infection.[i]
If this trend of saying “no” holds, a substantial majority of pregnant women who are employed by corporations with mandatory COVID vaccination requirements will be fired unless they can convince their employers to give them exemptions.
Exemptions may be hard to come by because the Centers for Disease Control recommends the vaccinations even for “people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or might become pregnant in the future.”[ii]
Many women do not have the luxury of deciding whether to work and must work up until their due date and then must return to work as soon as possible after giving birth to provide for their families. Yet corporations don’t care – comply or be fired.
A revolting side effect of the corporate mandates causing people to lose their jobs is … corporations may be happy to have an excuse to get rid of pregnant women so the corporation can avoid providing maternity leave and other leave needed by new mothers. Sounds like a return to the old days of discrimination against women.
It should be no surprise that, as a group, pregnant women are more cautious about shots and about medical procedures because they must decide not just for themselves but also for their unborn babies.
Every day pregnant women are faced with hard choices, weighing risks to themselves and potential risks to their unborn babies.
In the extreme, some women have had to decide whether to undergo severe treatments for cancer or to delay treatment until the baby is born. It is a decision that may mean life or death for either the mother or the unborn baby. It is heart breaking to read that a new mother who chose life for her child died soon after the miracle of birth. But this kind of choice is the reality some expectant mothers are faced with.
Physicians can’t substitute their educated advice for the final decision of an expectant mother. And woke corporations certainly aren’t qualified to make that decision either.
Neither being vaccinated or not being vaccinated are without risks. We need to respect the decision of expectant mothers, whichever way they decide.
It is not just pregnant women who should have a say in whether to be vaccinated. It is also nursing mothers and women planning to become pregnant. In fact every employee should be treated with respect and should never be fired over the employee’s medical decisions.
Montana became the first state to prohibit private employers from mandating Covid-19 vaccinations.(See- article)
A few weeks ago the Arkansas legislature was asked to extend the special session of the legislature to consider the issue of protecting employees from being fired for not being vaccinated. The legislature failed to help. Instead a majority of the members of the Arkansas Senate decided to adjourn and go home. To read more on what the legislature left unfinished and how your Senator voted on adjournment read Legislature’s Punt Has Negative Consequences.
NOTE: We use the terms “mother” and “unborn baby” and realize that may offend some easily offended people. We do not apologize for being accurate.
[i] https://www.foxnews.com/health/pregnant-women-unvaccinated-covid-19
[ii] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/pregnancy.html
