D.C. Assistant Police Chief Chanel Dickerson first exposed the “abortion ultimatum” on Tuesday night during a town meeting. Dickerson, one of 10 black women charging the police department for $100 million of a separate discrimination and harassment case, said the stress to abort her unborn child happened when she was an 18-year-old in the MPD cadet academy in 1988.
“My choice to have a baby was personal, and it should’ve been mine alone and not for an employer ultimatum,” Dickerson said. “I was told I had to have an abortion or be fired from the MPD cadet program.”
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Dickerson chose her job over following through with her pregnancy. She told The Federalist that she retired from the Department in 1991 “but returned to MPD in 1994 as a civilian employee” before becoming a sworn officer in 1997.
Another DC police officer, Karen Arikpo, also revealed to Fox 5 D.C. that the sergeant in charge of her 1997 recruit class with Dickerson told her to choose between keeping her baby or keeping her job. The sergeant reportedly no longer serves the Department.
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“So later that day, I went and told my class sergeant that I was pregnant. And she said I needed to have an abortion and she referred me to a doctor in D.C. to get it done,” Arikpo said.
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After receiving hard pressure from her employer, Arikpo kept her job instead of her baby. She told Fox 5 that she laments that choice and has grappled with fertility ever since.
“I did this for a job,” she says. “And then to want kids and can’t have them. How do you tell people that?”
Arikpo called it “unfair” and explained that even with fertility treatments, she could never get pregnant again.
“It’s so unfair,” she said. “And now I’ve never been able to have a kid. All these years, I’ve tried and I’ve never been able to have a baby.”
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D.C. police told Fox 5 that the academy’s current policy allows pregnant recruits to hold their training as cadets until after they have their baby.
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“If a recruit gets pregnant while at the academy, she will be placed in a future class upon completion of her leave. If a cadet gets pregnant, she would continue the educational piece with modified PT per guidance of a medical professional,” the statement said.
The DC Metro Life Alliance rebuked the Department’s alleged behavior and said a mother should never have to pick between “her career in public service or her unborn child’s life.”
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