By MailOnline Reporter and Associated Press A Roman Catholic schoolteacher who claims she was fired by a nothern Indiana diocese for trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertlization, will have her day in court. U.S. District Judge Robert L Miller Jr ruled this week that former St Vincent de Paul school teacher Emily Herx deserves a chance to prove that she was terminated by the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend based on sex discrimination. This issue 'is whether Mrs. Herx was nonrenewed because of her sex, or because of a sincere belief (by the diocese) about the morality of in vitro fertilization,' Miller wrote in the 29-page ruling issued Wednesday
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Emily Herx, 34, claims she was fired from her position as a teacher at the St Vincent de Paul School for undergoing IVF
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A district court judge has now approved the case to go to trial
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If she wins the discrimination case, she could win damages such as back pay
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