Lawsuit: Clinic fired woman because of husband’s race

A Hurricane woman alleges she was wrongfully terminated from Charleston’s FamilyCare Health Center because her husband is a black man, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Putnam County Circuit Court.

Tara Drew, a medical assistant for WomenCare Inc, doing business as FamilyCare Health Center on Pennsylvania Avenue, had been employed by the center since Dec. 2, 2013, the complaint said. Drew, a white woman, married a black man and the two have one child together, according to the complaint.

On Feb. 25, Drew went to the cafeteria inside nearby Charleston Area Medical Center Women and Children’s to purchase breakfast, the complaint said.

Drew stepped in line to purchase her $1.60 breakfast consisting of tater tots and French toast, but a man stepped in front of her to purchase her breakfast for her, according to the complaint. Drew protested against the man buying her breakfast, but he had already purchased it, the complaint said.

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