{"id":213944,"date":"2019-11-15T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=213944"},"modified":"2019-11-15T00:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:23:33","slug":"nyc-mayor-bloomberg-pregnant-employee-kill-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-pregnant-employee-kill-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NYC Mayor Bloomberg allegedly told employee who became pregnant to ‘kill it’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An old lawsuit is making waves again, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg mulls a run for president. Bloomberg was accused of responding inappropriately when an employee told him she was pregnant. He also allegedly complained about the number of women on his staff that were pregnant, in addition to making insensitive and racist comments.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg’s team has been forced to revisit his old comments<\/a>, which he admitted were “disrespectful and wrong.” The lawsuit, which was filed in 1997 and settled in the year 2000<\/a>, was brought by former employee Sekiko Sakai Garrison, who was an executive at his company at the time. When Garrison told Bloomberg she was pregnant, he allegedly responded, “Kill it!” This is an interesting response, given the fact that many on the pro-abortion side act insist that abortion doesn’t kill a human being. Bloomberg also reportedly then continued his discriminatory response by complaining, “Great! number 16!,” in reference to the number of employees he had who were pregnant.\u00a0He also is alleged to have made sexual comments about his female employees’ looks, allegedly saying to Garrison, for example, \u201cIf you looked like that, I would do you in a second.\u201d And while he claimed that this behavior was in the past, as recently as 2012, he was accused<\/a> of telling guests at a party to “look at the a** on [a certain woman].”<\/p>\n

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America’s abortion corporation, however, seems more than happy to defend Bloomberg, despite his alleged behavior. Jill Lafer, a former national chairwoman of Planned Parenthood, told the New York Times, \u201cTo say he\u2019s one of the biggest champions for women in this country and all over the world would be an understatement.” Yet being a champion for women does not include pushing them into abortions, or treating them like sex objects.<\/p>\n