Washington Post, After Outcry, Law School Says Student Due to Give Birth Soon Can Delay Final:

When Brittany Lovely started classes at Georgetown Law School last year, she knew it would be tough. Then came a pregnancy.

“When I found out, I was like ‘Oh my God.’ By the time he’s here, I would still have a year and a half in law school,” Lovely said about her future son. Her partner, also a Georgetown Law student, would have another semester of classes. “We were worried,” she said. “How do we do this?”

But she resolved to make it work. She has a supportive community of classmates and a law school that wooed her with the promise of a holistic education. That was until Lovely said school officials denied her request to take her criminal law exam — scheduled days after her Dec. 2 due date — early or at home.

The news quickly spread through the nation’s biggest law school, drawing outrage. After a petition urging the school to acquiesce circulated for more than a day and gathered thousands of signatures and hours after an inquiry from The Washington Post, law school officials said early Friday evening that they had “reached a mutually agreeable solution” with the second-year student.

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