FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO):A federal judge has set the final amount of money that a former St. Vincent de Paul teacher will get from a federal discrimination lawsuit…and it's much less than she was originally going to get.

U.S. District Judge Robert Miller reduced the total judgement given to Emily Herx late this past week to $403,608. A jury originally awarded Herx $1.9 million as the result of what they deemed as discrimination when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend fired Herx because officials found she underwent in vitro fertilization in early 2011.

The practice of in vitro fertilization is forbidden as an “intrinsic evil that no circumstances can justify” by the Roman Catholic Church. However, the Journal-Gazette reports that the diocese contends it did not renew the contract of the language arts teacher for the 2011-2012 school year over a teaching violation, not for her attempt to get pregnant.

Judge Miller previously reduced the $1.9 award to $540,000 in early July, which was a figure that Herx agreed to without waiving a right to appeal.