Catholic nurse forced to participate in abortion, lawsuit filed (Catholic News Agency)
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Catholic News Agency: "The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Catholic nurse who was forced to participate in an abortion, despite voicing her moral objections.
Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, was instructed to assist in a late second-trimester abortion for a woman 22 weeks into her pregnancy. The hospital had known of the nurse’s religious objections to abortion since she was hired in 2004.
Cenzon-DeCarlo reminded her supervisors of her religious objections, but was told that if she did not participate, she would be charged with 'insubordination and patient abandonment,' which could result in disciplinary action and the possible loss of her job and nursing license."
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