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Metro Library System employees prohibited from saying A-word…

9:10 AM EDT on July 22, 2022

Oklahoma's quest to become a real-life Gilead is coming along nicely.

Earlier this week, a Metro Library System employee shared a now-deleted screenshot to Reddit of an email that was sent to staff concerning "abortion inquiries."

According to the library's legal department, librarians should avoid using the word "abortion" and no longer aid people in looking for information on the topic, otherwise, they may lose their job, face a $10,000 fine and even go to jail!

Check out this insanity:

I'm not a 1st Amendment Auditor or anything like that, but doesn't this violate the First Amendment? For example, say some religious zealot comes in trying to bait a librarian into saying the A-word, shouldn't a librarian have the freedom to say something like "I really wish your mom would have got an abortion?"