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nonpartisan group. What would your answer be, and why? Would you feel the same way if you were asked by a Planned Parenthood support organization, knowing that Planned Parenthood has been targeted with funding restrictions by Republican legislators and executives in many places? • You have a friend who is a longtime member of NASW and considers herself to be a political conservative who has voted frequently for Republican candidates, including supporting Donald Trump for president in 2016. She believes that NASW is too liberal and especially disagrees with its (in her opinion) pro- abortion position. She is convinced that abortion is murder and is against her sincerely held religious beliefs. Although she does not mind having a different opinion about policy compared to most social workers, she has noticed (starting in graduate school) a tendency for conservative social workers to be frozen out of social circles. In fact, some fellow members of NASW have been quite nasty in discussing social workers who hold her views, wondering if political conservatives should even be allowed to be members of NASW. This is a problem for her because she wants to maintain receiving client referrals from other social workers because her practice relies on them. She asks you, a more middle- of- the- road social worker with strong ties to NASW’s efforts, what to do. Should she remain in the organization and try to change its policies to be more in line with her values, should she remain a member of NASW to keep the good insurance benefits available to members and professional and social contacts but otherwise quietly work against its proposals, or should she give up her membership because of philosophical differences with the organization? Which option (or some other) would you advise? Why? • You work in a small nonprofit organization with very limited resources, serving low- income clients. A client of yours (who is African American) with two school- aged children could make good use of a special fund set aside for buying back- to-school clothes for her boy and girl. When you mention this to your supervisor, she agrees but cautions you to provide only half the officially allowed amount of funds in order to keep money available for other clients. You believe that special circumstances make it vital to assist your client with more than half the amount possible, yet you know that there really are limited funds for this purpose. You have also never heard of any White client being treated this way. You are keenly aware that you are only 4 months into your 6- month probationary period. Social work jobs as good as this one are difficult to come by in your small community. What should you do that is in keeping with your Rawlsian viewpoint on social justice? What about