Nurse's rights violated, suit filed

Nurse's rights violated, suit filed



The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has filed suit against New York's Mount Sinai Hospital for not recognizing the conscience rights of a nurse who is a pro-life Catholic.

ADF legal counsel Matt Bowman explains the dispute. "In this case, a nurse, Cathy (Cenzon) DeCarlo, was illegally forced to assist [in an] abortion by a hospital that receives hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funds," he reports. "We filed now two lawsuits against this hospital to make sure that Cathy DeCarlo's rights are protected."

The nurse was threatened with disciplinary action, including possible termination and loss of her license, and the ADF attorney notes that the firm in both suits has "cited federal and state conscience protections that are supposed to protect healthcare workers from having to assist abortions" since the hospital ignored those laws by forcing Cenzon-DeCarlo to assist in a procedure with which she disagreed.

The unborn baby was 22 weeks old, and the case was classified as an "emergency," even though it was not designated as such by the hospital. Administrators and other staff have known of the nurse's religious objections to abortion since 2004, and they have responded to the suits by saying Cenzon-DeCarlo has no right to sue.

Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: May 6, 2010
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