At least two Washington, D.C., police officers allege that the Metropolitan Police Department gave them an ultimatum: have an abortion or lose your job.

D.C. Assistant Police Chief Chanel Dickerson claims she was told this while undergoing the MPD cadet program in 1988. Another woman, D.C. police officer Karen Arikpo, said the sergeant leading the department’s recruiting class in 1997 told her the same thing. Arikpo said the sergeant even referred her to an abortion doctor, according to Fox 5.