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Nurse sues NY hospital after allegedly being forced to help with abortion
A New York City nurse has sued Mount Sinai Hospital after she was allegedly forced to assist with a late term abortion in contravention of her religious beliefs.
The nurse, Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, who works in the hospital's operating room, contends that she had to help with an abortion on a 22-week pregnant patient with pre-eclampsia, despite it going against her religious beliefs. Otherwise, she feared she'd lose her job and her license.
Despite knowing of her objections to participating in abortions since her hiring in 2004, her supervisors refused to reassign the procedure to another nurse, Cenzon-DeCarlo contends. She also asserts that the hospital could have gotten another nurse to do the procedure, since it had about six hours to find a replacement.
Instead, she alleges, they threatened her with charges of insubordination and patient abandonment if she wouldn't assist with the abortion.
To learn more about the suit:
- read this Health Leaders Media piece
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By Josephine Cicchini | Posted 1:54pm | August 6, 2009
Hospicaust Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8fU3cj0se8. Please visit website: www.LeapforPatientSafety.org. Consider adding your name and comment to the "Improvement in Quality of Patient Care" petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/patients/petition.html.
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By Live and Let Live | Posted 9:45am | August 7, 2009
I hope she wins this lawsuit bigtime! No one should be forced to take part in the taking of a human life! Whoever the supervisor or supervisors are that forced her to do this should be fired.
By joshua a | Posted 11:56am | August 7, 2009
Her religious beliefs? I would like think her only concern was to help save the patient. If she understands her Faith then she would know that her higher being is looking into her heart and knows she was only doing what her profession, that she choose, required from her.
By Josephin | Posted 5:08pm | August 10, 2009
Hospicaust Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8fU3cj0se8.
Please visit website: www.LeapforPatientSafety.org.
Consider adding your name and comment to the “Improvement in Quality of Patient Care Petition” http://www.petitiononline.com/patients/petition.html.
Many thanks.
jccicchi@yahoo.com
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