Posted on 11/23/2010 4:44:02 PM PST by Pyro7480
Today the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Catholic nurse who was forced by a New York hospital to participate in an abortion does not have the right to sue her employer.
Administrators at Mt. Sinai Hospital had threatened Catherine DeCarlo with disciplinary measures in May 2009 if she did not honor a last-minute summons to assist in a scheduled late-term abortion. The hospital insisted on her participation in the procedure on the grounds that it was an “emergency.”
Lawyers for DeCarlo, however, have pointed out that the procedure was not classified by the hospital as an emergency, and the patient was apparently not in crisis at the time of the surgery.
DeCarlo claims that her participation in the abortion led to serious emotional trauma. She also claims that hospital administrators later attempted to coerce her into signing an agreement to participate in abortions in the future.
The hospital had reportedly known of the Catholic nurse’s religious objections to abortion since 2004.
Alliance Defence Fund (ADF) attorneys had filed two suits in the case – one federal, filed in July 2009, and another state, filed earlier this year. The federal suit claimed that Mt. Sinai ignored federal laws prohibiting coercion while receiving hundred of millions of dollars in federal funding.
In January the case was dismissed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, at which point it was appealed to the Second Circuit....
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
We are in a state of war with the leftist vermin. Either they go or we do.
This was a fully developed infant being ripped apart by leftist vermin.
I fully support the mass extermination of these vermin. All 50+ million of them.
“We have to put up with them but we don’t have to kill for them.”
Why should we even put up with them? They are killing infants! How does it get any worse than this?
They cower before the Muslims so why can’t we make them cower before us? Conservatives are far too soft.
With all due respect, she should have told them to “f—k off!”. They can’t FORCE her to do anything...all they can do is fire her.
There is nothing the pro-aborts won’t do. They’d kill and torture people of all ages if only the law gave them permission.
Agree with you 100%. No one forced her to attend, she could have walked out the door, I would have...
it was no threat to her career. Nurse’s can get a job easier than any other profession. She made a choice...now she can live with it...
ding we have a winner!
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Due to the radical left, America’s courts have been descended into Stalinism.
“The Catholic Church will allow abortion in the case of risk to the life of the mother.”
The lives of both must be saved (or it must be attempted); they cannot choose. An Italian woman was recently beatified for bringing a child to term knowing that it could take her life (due to another medical condition), which it did.
“The Church opposes all direct abortions, whatever the rationalization.”
Absolutely right; the definition of “intrinsically evil”.
“I would have said, no. Period. They could fire me, I wouldn’t care.”
While that is certainly the correct position, bear in mind that people like Hillary wanted participation in abortion procedures to be a mandatory part of medical school education. This is where the slippery slope of “She could have quit” has led us. While not supporting her decision in any way, understand that the forces at work against this woman would have every doctor partake in murder before getting licensed; this would give you a left-wing medical field filled with the likes of Dr. Mengele, in which EVERY one of them had already violated their Hippocratic oath (and probably condemned their souls to Hell).
“I have been put in a similar position before. The choice is not easy but it is a CHOICE. One can walk away from doing evil.”
Well, you obviously are one of those rare individuals without sin. Congratulations!
“Her life was not threatened. She was not tied up to the operating table. Her arm was not yanked up behind her back. Would you shoot your neighbor’s golden retriever because you would lose your job if you didn’t?”
Her life was threatened...her very livelihood (career) was put into jeopardy. Not sure why you are having a hard time understanding the power coercion can have upon people. Empathy (love) is the answer to all the questions. The decision obviously bothered this lady horribly, hence the lawsuit. She was put into a position that caused her to suffer and continues to cause her to suffer.
The main point of the article that is relevant to our lives is that the government can force us to kill others without regard to whether it is morally right or not. Taking your stance on this issue, are you willing to sacrifice your future to fight this evil (government)? I don’t think so.
“We are in a state of war with the leftist vermin. Either they go or we do.”
I have come to the conclusion that I really do not have any interest in sharing a nation with leftists. I view them as being under evil’s influence. Once one realizes the fact that we are not a unified people and looks at the lefts actions through a clear lense we see that they have felt this way for some time now. The problem with the leftists is they will not give up part of the geography, they will force us to leave or become subjugated to their will. They will in no way allow us to be free. Hence, there is no way we can reasonably share our government, nation, culture with them.
I understand the power it can have. I also understand that if you succumb to it you have no moral standing to sue on the basis of your belief. What guidance would you take from the Bible about it? That source is totally relevant here because she is basing her suit on that understanding.
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