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| Assist With That Abortion Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, Or Else! | | Print | |
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That’s what a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn New York found out early this summer. And it’s why she has filed the suit against the hospital, which falsely told her she endangered the life of the mother, she claims, and punished her with fewer overtime hours than she had typically received. The hospital didn’t fire the Filipina immigrant, but it behaved badly enough to invite a lawsuit. The trouble for Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo began on May 24, The New York Post reports, when she arrived at work and received an assignment to assist with a late-term abortion, a particularly gruesome affair that involves dismembering the unborn child. This Mephistophelean aspect of late-term abortion is one reason the partial-birth debate was such an easy one for pro-lifers to win. Even the most ardent abortion advocate can’t really defend hacking a baby to pieces. Then again, some can and do. Anyway, the hospital ordered Cenzon-DeCarlo to help with the abortion, the Post reports, because the patient had preeclampsia, which could kill the expectant mother. Preeclampsia is simply high blood pressure and protein in the urine. It surfaces at about 20 weeks of pregnancy. It generally isn't dangerous, but it can worsen and be life threatening. “Bosses told the weeping Cenzon-DeCarlo the patient was 22 weeks into her pregnancy and had preeclampsia, a condition marked by high blood pressure that can lead to seizures or death if left untreated,” the Post reported. According to the lawsuit, one supervisor “claimed that the mother could die if [Cenzon-DeCarlo] did not assist in the abortion.” As well, the Post reports, “[t]he day after the procedure, Cenzon-DeCarlo filed a grievance with her union. Later that week, she was cornered by two supervisors who told her if she wanted any more overtime shifts, she would have to sign a statement agreeing to participate in abortions, the suit says. The next month, Cenzon-DeCarlo was assigned to one overtime shift, rather than the eight or nine she usually received, the suit claims.” Funny thing is, hospital officials knew she would not help perform abortions. Her uncle is a bishop in the Philippines, and when she interviewed for her job, she boldly told the hospital she should not help murder the unborn. Witnessing the abortion “was like a horror show unfolding,” Cenzon-DeCarlo understandably says, but what one can’t understand is why supervisors lied to her about what would befall the patient if no abortion were performed. Abortion is not the treatment for preelcampsia, according to the Mayo Clinic Web site: “If you have preeclampsia, the only cure is delivery of your baby.” In other words, an abortion wasn’t necessary. It was merely preferred. A treatment used for the condition is magnesium sulfate as an anti-convulsant. Cenzon-DeCarlo says the mother was not in danger and never received magnesium. The hospital, of course, won’t comment on the suit, which left offering an opinion to the usual leftists. A spokesman for the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Rights Project unbosomed the usual boilerplate bromide: “The law provides protections for individuals who object to performing abortions, but at the same time, health-care professionals are not permitted to abandon patients.” As one commenter on the Post story observed, one wonders what the story would be if Cenzon-DeCarlo were a Muslim. The hospital would likely be in trouble for “intolerance” and disparaging the nurse’s religious beliefs. Maybe. But the important question is how the suit plays out if the hospital doesn’t settle.
R. Cort Kirkwood, managing editor of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va., has been writing about American politics and culture for more than 20 years. Mr. Kirkwood has written for Chronicles, The New American, National Review, The Remnant, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun, The Orange County Register, Taki’s Top Drawer online magazine, and LewRockwell.com. For several years, he syndicated a column, “The Hard Line.” Mr. Kirkwood is the author of the nonfiction title, Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans To Know And Admire, published by Cumberland House.
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Lee Gonzales
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Sue the pants off them When hospital administrators and physicians prefer to take the politically correct way instead honoring their hippocratic oath, (which has been part of the medical professsion for centuries before Roe v. Wade), it is time to remind them that saving lives is the reason they became doctors and managers of hospitals. Roe v.Wade proponents will soon celebrate their 40th. Perhaps planned parenthood will have a Blood Red Ruby handled scalpel to hand out to the butcher "doctors" at the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade? With "Liberalist" SP nominee Sotomayor getting the pat on the back by Republican senator Linsey Graham it is only proper to give him a Ruby scalpel too. Why is it that "conservatives" end up getting kicked in the teeth by liberals like Graham who cave to political correctness? Why is it that old phony Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower, who nominated Harry Balckmun the holocaust judge who wrote the majority opinion on Roe V Wade, still getS good press from "Liberal" historians? Roe v.Wade is more than murdering babies- it will extend soon to letting old people die to satisfy Obamacare. Unless, of course we STOP Obamacare this year! |
Flu-Bird
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Dealers of death So now a nurse is told to ether kill the unborn child or lose her job Looks like MT SINAI has become a funeral palar and the AMAs snake is venomous |
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Numbskulls “The law provides protections for individuals who object to performing abortions, but at the same time, health-care professionals are not permitted to abandon patients.” What about abandoning their smallest patients!(or ripping them limb from limb) Oh wait, it's not outside the uterus yet so it's not human. So what is it, a dog? Once it is outside, though it be in pieces, THEN is it human? Well then it's a human in pieces and that sounds like a crime scene to me. |
Concerned
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... My condolences to Cenzon Decarlo. My mom is a pro-life nurse and i feel very strongly about conscience protections for those of us who believe the way that we do. and yes, i agree with the point made about if she was a Muslim. Why is the Catholic faith the only faith that it is PC to disparage? We can't touch Muslim beliefs because that is insensitive... |
Flu-Bird
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Your a liberal when You know your a liberal when you have a window sticker reading KEEP ABORTION LEGAL and bumper stickers reading SAVE THE REDWOODS,SAVE THE RAINFORESTS |
