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BOSTON, Massachusetts (LifeSiteNews) — Boston Public Schools could fire nearly 200 black, and 42 Latino, employees as the mayor’s jab mandate goes into effect for all city workers.  

Sunday was the final date of compliance although a legal challenge remains pending for some workers. 

The city’s school system “received 266 requests for exemptions from the vaccine mandate from Boston Teachers Union members, which includes 7,637 teachers, paraprofessionals, nurses, and social workers,” the Boston Globe reported.  

“According to the union, 378 of its members remain unvaccinated,” the Globe continued.  

“Of those educators, 197 are Black, 41 are Latino, 10 are Asian, 122 are white, and the ethnicity of eight wasn’t specified.” 

The teachers’ union said the firings would be bad for “diversity,” and the mayor said that she is working to get more people jabbed. 

“When I saw our numbers, I was very alarmed and started immediately raising the red flags,” Boston Teachers Union President Jessica Tang said.  

“We’ve worked so hard to increase teacher diversity in the first place.” 

“Equity is always a driving lens as we’re looking at our policies,” Mayor Michelle Wu said. “We know that vaccination is the best way to ensure safety of our school communities.” 

Boston Globe downplays teacher’s fertility, pro-life concerns  

The Globe highlighted two stories of black teachers who could lose their jobs under the policy. One has a medical condition which makes the jab dangerous and believes she will get an exemption. 

Another teacher has the antibodies, is worried about the effect of vaccines on fertility, and has a conscience issue with the testing of the shots on material derived from aborted infants.

One teacher, the Globe reported, “fears the vaccine could damage her fertility and it hasn’t been studied long enough to be proven safe long term. She doesn’t trust Big Pharma. And she doesn’t feel that she needs it, as she contracted a mild case of COVID in December and has antibodies.” 

She also does not like that the shots were tested on cells derived from aborted children. 

The newspaper downplayed her fertility and abortion concerns. 

“Studies have shown no links between the vaccine and infertility,” the paper added as a note. However, the paper ignores that COVID shots can make it harder to track fertility and conceive a baby due to its effects on menstrual cycles 

A January paper in Obstetrics and Gynecology reported a change in about 1 day for jabbed women who previously had regular periods. 

The United Kingdom’s vaccine adverse events system has collected thousands of reports of menstrual irregularities and reproductive dysfunction post-vaccination. 

The paper also tried to downplay the black pro-life woman’s concerns about the abortion-tainted jabs, saying that “many prominent organizations that oppose abortion [found] the vaccines to be ethically uncontroversial.”  

None of the organizations made the conclusion that the use of abortion-tainted jabs is “ethically uncontroversial;” some argue only that their use could be justified. 

The paper also falsely claimed that “ibuprofen and aspirin” have similar testing histories. 

The “prominent organizations” cited are the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. It also includes a citation from the “Catholic Church.” The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) made clear in a December 2020 statement that vaccination “must be voluntary.” 

Furthermore, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the U.S. Military Services confirmed that just because someone can take the COVID shots without committing a sin, a Catholic could justifiably refuse to take a shot for religious reasons. 

“This circumstance raises the question of whether the vaccine’s moral permissibility precludes an individual from forming a sincerely held religious belief that receiving the vaccine would violate his conscience,” Abp. Broglio said. 

“It does not.” 

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