Posted on 04/22/2016 11:29:18 AM PDT by Morgana
It isn’t difficult to guess the reasons why a late-term abortion clinic in New Jersey didn’t want pregnant employees to be working there. It could be bad for its $1.8 million-a-year business.
The Pilgrim Medical Center, a Montclair abortion clinic that advertises same-day, late-term abortions, recently lost a discrimination lawsuit filed by three former employees who said they were fired after becoming pregnant, according to the Wall Street Journal. Now, the abortion facility is filing for bankruptcy.
Nicholas Campanella, the abortionist who owns the facility, has a reputation among his staff for “not lik[ing] pregnant employees,” according to the lawsuit. One former employee said she was fired in February 2013 after she became pregnant; Campanella told her there was not work for her anymore, though the abortion clinic had just posted a job opening for her duties, the report states. The other two workers said they were fired after taking maternity leave.
A judge awarded them more than $1 million, but Campanella is appealing the decision, according to the report. Because the abortion facility also is filing for bankruptcy, the former employees cannot collect the monetary damages, the report states.
The legal proceedings have not stopped the abortion facility’s deadly operations either. Pilgrim continues to operate and advertise itself as the only abortion facility in New Jersey to offer one-day abortions at 24.6 weeks. Babies are viable outside the womb at 24 weeks and even earlier, thanks to modern medical advancements.
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In the bankruptcy documents, Campanella touted his abortion clinic’s strong reputation for safety and care; but past inspection reports from the state show otherwise. A 2011 Montclair Times article reported state inspectors found two “immediate jeopardy” issues at Pilgrim that were “serious enough that they posed or could pose a risk for harm” to patients.
The state found the abortion facility was reusing the same needle to withdraw medication for multiple patients, not cleaning up blood properly, and failing to keep emergency medical supplies in stock. State investigators also found that a patient’s chest was not hooked up to an EKG monitor, but an EKG status was written on the person’s medical record, according to the report. During the inspection, one employee did not even know where the EKG monitor was, the report states.
These horrific conditions coupled with the discrimination against his pregnant employees seem to indicate that Campanella has little regard for women’s lives.
Money quite possibly could have been the reason Campanella discriminated against pregnant employees. Having pregnant and newly parenting women working at his late-term abortion clinic could have been problematic for multiple reasons. One could be that pregnant employees could have reminded patients of their own unborn babies and caused them to reconsider, thus taking away business. Another possibility could have been dealing with the trauma of the employees themselves who, being new parents, could be hit with the horrific fact that babies like theirs are being killed there. Maybe he did not want to lose money paying them while on maternity leave. Or maybe, just maybe, their pregnancies were eating away at Campanella’s own conscience.
The abortion industry is lucrative. Campanella’s abortion facility made $1.8 million in revenue last year, according to the bankruptcy documents obtained by the newspaper. Though he wants the courts to believe his mission is to serve women’s needs, his business practices show otherwise.
Nice to have a bright spot in the news on a Friday.
Thanks for posting.
Let’s pray abortion clinic bankruptcy becomes an epidemic.
Oh you are welcome... I so love this one!!
“Nicholas Campanella, the abortionist who owns the facility, has a reputation among his staff for “not liking pregnant employees,”
Well DUH!
That is a prerequisite for the job. You gotta love killing children.
Sort of like those who ran Auschwitz just saying they were helping to prevent the spread of diseases by disposing of corpses in a sanitary manner or harvesting gold and human body parts which were no longer needed by the owners.
The abortion mill is still operating, despite bankruptcy filing. I don’t see any good news here. I look at the Constitution and see that no person shall be deprived of their life without due process. Abortion violates that clear provision. That we don’t appear to have a single President, Governor, County Executive or Mayor who’s willing to stand up and support the Constitution is a sad and sorry thing. If you say you’re a Constitutionalist and you keep voting for candidates who have no intent to stop abortion using their own authority, then you’re not much of a Constitutionalist. I know of only one candidate for President who understands that, if elected, he would be obligated to use his lawful authority to shut down every abortion facility in the land. He’s a Freeper, too. Tom Hoefling is his name. His FR handle is EternalVigilance. See the platform Tom, and I, endorse at http://www.selfgovernment.us
Person is the key word. And courts have denied the personhood of the unborn.
Some justice has been achieved.
You work for a man who makes his living butchering the most helpless among us, and they you wind up shocked that he breaks the law and fires you?
What made you think he had any morals to begin with?
Actually that’s not true... what the court did was tie itself in knots inventing a right to privacy between a doctor and a patient that said, what they do the government cannot pierce which is not justified by any law or document... Much like the gay marriage decision, they just decided they wanted an outcome and then invented justifications that have no legal basis.
Texas justices rule fetus not a ‘person’ in lawsuit
Justices: Fetus is not a ‘person’
Texas high court rules 8-1 the parents of a stillborn baby can’t sue hospital
JANET ELLIOTT, Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
Published 5:30 am, Monday, August 30, 2004
AUSTIN - The parents of a stillborn child cannot sue medical practitioners for negligence because a fetus is not a “person” or “individual” under state laws, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled.
The court in an 8-1 ruling overturned a decision of the 2nd Court of Appeals in Fort Worth that Tara Reese could sue a Fort Worth hospital for the mental anguish she suffered after her baby died in utero in 1998.
Lawyers for Reese had urged the court to follow 37 other states that allow wrongful-death claims for stillborn children. Texas is one of 10 states that do not recognize such claims.
I have a hard time believing this. It’s like fairy tale quality evil.
That’s a Texas ruling not a federal statue or ruling.
What is needed to stop the killing, under color of law, of thousands of this group of persons every day? Simple. We need to stop electing candidates who uphold the legal fiction that some individual human beings aren't persons. I'm not a single-issue voter, but some matters are too important not to be "litmus tests". Personhood is one such matter. I will not support any candidate who fails to get this. That means I won't be voting for Trump, Cruz, Kasich, Clinton or Sanders in November. If you want to raise up candidates who come close to representing your views, it's not not too late. Join Freeper EternalVigilance and others this Tuesday and Thursday night on a national town-hall-style conference call -- it starts at 9pm ET -- 712-32-3566,,,,340794# -- Ask Tom what he would do, as President, to shut down every abortion facility in the nation.
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