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[You are in the Catholic Forum.]
A couple of months ago, I started working at a company where I work in group homes with foster youth. My job is to supervise the youth, take them to appointments and on errands, cook for them, and things like that. While I am on the job, I am not supposed to let my religious beliefs be put on display (I live in California) and that doesn't really come up for me anyways. But a situation just popped into my head that I am now starting to worry about again. I hoped I would never run into this possibility, but at this point it feels inescapable.
Recently, people under my job title have been taking the teens I work with to various different appointments. One of those kinds of appointments has been to take them to Planned Parenthood, either for pregnancy tests or for birth control. I have thankfully not been asked to take them to any of these appointments, but I know that one day it will most likely be somewhere that I will have to take them, as per my job duties. This is something that I am 100% not comfortable with.
I keep trying to rationalize this in my head, saying that maybe I could plead ignorance when I am faced with my Lord one day, saying that I thought they were only going for birth control or something that is a "lesser offense." But I can't plead ignorance no matter how hard I try. I know what goes on at Planned Parenthood. I know that taking a girl there could potentially mean a life would be lost, and even if it was just for birth control reasons, I know that God despises ALL offenses, no matter how big or small that we make them out to be.
I suppose the only other logical thing to do would be to eventually look elsewhere for a job, but the thing is that I JUST transferred to this job's medical insurance a few days ago, and I am in need of the medical coverage for my many issues. I can't just up and leave. Besides, these kids need me. And even if I wanted to leave, where would I go? No other place would take me because I don't have enough experience or an advanced enough degree.
So I must ask... Though it is a terrible position to be in, and the law would likely not recognize my rights to religious objections of this where I live, if my hand were forced in this situation for me to have to take one of these teens to Planned Parenthood for whatever the reason may be, would God ever see my innocence or forgive me? I would, of course, try my hardest to get another staff member to take them to the appointment, but there's a good chance that at one point I would be stuck with the job of having to do so myself. In essence, there's nothing I could really do about it unless I quit, but again, I have nothing else to fall back on.
A couple of months ago, I started working at a company where I work in group homes with foster youth. My job is to supervise the youth, take them to appointments and on errands, cook for them, and things like that. While I am on the job, I am not supposed to let my religious beliefs be put on display (I live in California) and that doesn't really come up for me anyways. But a situation just popped into my head that I am now starting to worry about again. I hoped I would never run into this possibility, but at this point it feels inescapable.
Recently, people under my job title have been taking the teens I work with to various different appointments. One of those kinds of appointments has been to take them to Planned Parenthood, either for pregnancy tests or for birth control. I have thankfully not been asked to take them to any of these appointments, but I know that one day it will most likely be somewhere that I will have to take them, as per my job duties. This is something that I am 100% not comfortable with.
I keep trying to rationalize this in my head, saying that maybe I could plead ignorance when I am faced with my Lord one day, saying that I thought they were only going for birth control or something that is a "lesser offense." But I can't plead ignorance no matter how hard I try. I know what goes on at Planned Parenthood. I know that taking a girl there could potentially mean a life would be lost, and even if it was just for birth control reasons, I know that God despises ALL offenses, no matter how big or small that we make them out to be.
I suppose the only other logical thing to do would be to eventually look elsewhere for a job, but the thing is that I JUST transferred to this job's medical insurance a few days ago, and I am in need of the medical coverage for my many issues. I can't just up and leave. Besides, these kids need me. And even if I wanted to leave, where would I go? No other place would take me because I don't have enough experience or an advanced enough degree.
So I must ask... Though it is a terrible position to be in, and the law would likely not recognize my rights to religious objections of this where I live, if my hand were forced in this situation for me to have to take one of these teens to Planned Parenthood for whatever the reason may be, would God ever see my innocence or forgive me? I would, of course, try my hardest to get another staff member to take them to the appointment, but there's a good chance that at one point I would be stuck with the job of having to do so myself. In essence, there's nothing I could really do about it unless I quit, but again, I have nothing else to fall back on.
