It’s wrong that something as normal and natural as becoming a parent cost me a career that I loved and was good at, and cost me my financial well-being. Starting a family should not come at the price I was forced to pay.
Author: Kimberlie Michelle Durham
Kimberlie Michelle Durham was an Emergency Medical Technician in Alabama whose job often required her to lift patients on stretchers into an ambulance. When she became pregnant, Durham was told her only option was to take unpaid leave for the duration of her pregnancy.