Georgetown University Law Center is facing scrutiny over its handling of a pregnant student’s request for exam accommodations.
Brittany Lovely, a second-year law student, is expecting her first child during the upcoming exam period and sought to take her exams either early or remotely. The university initially denied these requests, citing concerns about fairness among students.
Lovely described the situation as “extremely disrespectful” and felt that the university’s suggestion to bring her newborn to campus during exams so she could breastfeed her baby, with minimal recovery time, was unreasonable and insensitive.
A school leader also allegedly told her, “motherhood is not for the faint of heart.”
This isn’t a problem of being pregnant while in law school. This is a problem of someone’s Title IX protections being violated. Your comment implies that you think that Brittany Lovely was unwise to continue at law school while pregnant, but it’s fairly reasonable to expect a law school to be following the law.