Tue Oct 26, 2021 – 10:34 am EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Two police officers have accused the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., of forcing them to have an abortion to keep their jobs while they were cadets in the department’s training program.
In a community meeting October 19, Assistant Police Chief Chanel Dickerson stated that when she was a cadet in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) training program in 1988, she was told to abort her child or be removed from the force. On October 20, another woman came forward and accused the force of giving her the same ultimatum in 1997.
“When I was [18 years old] as a police cadet, I was told I had to have an abortion or be fired from the MPD cadet program,” Dickerson said. “Wow. My choice to have a baby was personal and it should’ve been mine alone and not for an employer ultimatum.”
Dickerson, who stated that she never ended up becoming a mother, also said she witnessed other instances of misconduct at the hands of the department, including a time a mother on the force asked for a shift change to be able to care
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