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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kevin McGill

Southwest Airlines is back in court over firing of flight attendant with anti-abortion views

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Southwest Airlines is set to return to federal court Monday in hopes of reversing an $8000,000 award to a flight attendant who said she was fired for her anti-abortion views and a judge's related order that the airlines’ lawyers take religious liberty training from a conservative Christian legal group.

Southwest argues flight attendant Charlene Carter was fired because she violated company rules requiring civility in the workplace by sending “hostile and graphic" anti-abortion messages to a fellow employee, who also was president of the local union.

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