NY Catholic Nurse Forced To Participate in Abortion Describes Ordeal

NY Catholic Nurse Forced To Participate in Abortion Describes Ordeal...

"Every man, woman, and child of the age of reason knows right from wrong, for he has been given an inborn conscience. At the moment of his conception life is within the womb, and at the moment of conception a life is forming, regardless of what the agents of hell now pollute the minds of mankind with, creating murders of the young! I say unto you, life begins at the moment of conception and all who extinguish this light are murderers, and without repentance shall be condemned to hell!" - Jesus, June 18, 1977

LifeSiteNews.com reported on July 28, 2009:

Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital who was forced to participate in the abortion of a late-term unborn child under the threat of losing her job and nursing license, has given a candid interview to the New York Post. In the interview she describes the ordeal she endured when she was told by hospital administrators to choose between her religious convictions and her job.

"It felt like a horror film unfolding," said Cenzon-DeCarlo, 35, who claims she has had gruesome nightmares and hasn't been able to sleep since the May 24 incident.

"I couldn't believe that this could happen," Cenzon-DeCarlo told the Post, describing how she was threatened with charges of insubordination and patient abandonment, which could result in the loss of her job and nursing license, if she did not participate in the abortion. "I felt violated and betrayed," she recalled.

Hospital administrators told the nurse that the scheduled abortion was an "emergency" and that the woman would die if she did not assist.

However, Cenzon-DeCarlo says that she saw no indications that the abortion was a medical emergency while in the operating room, and she later learned that the hospital's own records deemed the procedure "Category II," meaning that the situation is not considered immediately life threatening.

Despite repeated and emotional objections, Cenzon-DeCarlo was ultimately forced to participate in the child's death, and was later pressured to sign an agreement that she would assist in all abortions doctors deemed an "emergency."

The Post reports that Cenzon-DeCarlo, a native of the Philippines, moved to New York in 2001 and started at Mount Sinai as an operating-room nurse in 2004. During her job interview, an administrator asked Cenzon-DeCarlo whether she'd be willing to participate in abortions. She flatly said no.

The nurse said she put her beliefs in writing.

"I emigrated to this country in the belief that here religious freedom is sacred," Cenzon-DeCarlo said. "Doctors and nurses shouldn't be forced to abandon their beliefs and participate in abortion in order to keep their jobs."

Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorneys filed a lawsuit last week against Mount Sinai Hospital on behalf of Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo, who is asking the court to order the hospital to pay unspecified damages, restore her shifts and respect her objections to abortion.

The suit also seeks to force Mount Sinai to give up the federal funding it receives, the Post report states, because it failed to uphold a federal rule protecting employees who have moral objections to controversial procedures.

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NY Catholic Nurse Sues Hospital after Forced to Participate in Late- Term Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09072301.html

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ADF attorneys file lawsuit against hospital for violating Christian nurse’s rights of conscience

NY Catholic Nurse Sues Hospital after Forced to Participate in Late-Term Abortion...

LifeSiteNews.com reported on July 23, 2009:

A Catholic nurse is suing a New York hospital for forcing her to participate in the abortion of a late-term unborn child under the threat of possible termination and loss of license, and penalizing her after she filed a grievance and continued to refuse performing abortions.

Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Mount Sinai Medical Center on behalf of senior nurse Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo, who says she was denied an opportunity to find a nurse to replace her after resisting a last-minute summons to assist in the scheduled abortion. While hospital administrators told the nurse that the scheduled abortion was an "emergency,"

However, Cenzon-DeCarlo says that she saw no indications that the abortion was a medical emergency while in the operating room.

Despite repeated and emotional objections, Cenzon-DeCarlo was ultimately forced to participate in the child's death, and was later pressured to sign an agreement that she would assist in all abortions doctors deemed an "emergency."

Mount Sinai, argue the lawyers, should not be allowed to continue receiving millions of dollars of federal funds while in violation of federal law protecting the conscience rights of medical workers.

"Pro-life nurses shouldn't be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs," said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. "Requiring a devout, Catholic nurse to participate in a late-term abortion in order to remain employed is illegal, unethical, and violates her rights of conscience.

"Federal law requires that employers who receive funding from tax dollars must not compel employees to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs, but this nurse's objections fell on deaf ears."

Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo is described in court papers as having a reputation for "a high level of expertise" and competency in various medical disciplines. The hospital, they say, has known of her religious objections to abortion since her declaration of that fact in a job interview in 2004.

The complaint states that Cenzon-DeCarlo was scheduled to perform an abortion on May 24 of this year, and grew concerned when she discovered that the child in the womb was alive. Cenzon-DeCarlo was accustomed to assisting at similar procedures that followed a miscarriage.

The nurse reportedly then sought her nursing supervisor, who warned that if Cenzon-DeCarlo did not participate, she "would be brought up on charges of 'insubordination and patient abandonment.'" Such charges, says the lawyers, "would severely jeopardize Mrs. Cenzon-DeCarlo's employment and her nursing license and consequently her career and her and her family's livelihood."

While hospital officials insisted to DeCarlo that the woman's life would be in danger without the abortion, Cenzon-DeCarlo believed that the situation did not require her immediate involvement, as she says the mother's preeclampsia had not reached a critical stage. Preeclampsia is a medical condition arising as a complication from pregnancy, which can be resolved in severe cases by removing the unborn child - although the child need not be killed.

The complaint states Cenzon-DeCarlo was reduced to tears, and offered to have her priest explain why she could not assist in the death of the child, but her supervisors would not yield. Cenzon-DeCarlo ultimately submitted.

"Mount Sinai callously imposed this harm on Mrs. Cenzon-DeCarlo over and against her tears and urgings and known religious beliefs," says the ADF lawyers.

Participating in the death of the child (duties included transporting and treating the baby's dismembered parts with saline) reportedly caused Cenzon-DeCarlo "extreme emotional, psychological, and spiritual suffering." Cenzon-DeCarlo says she sought therapy after she began suffering from nightmares of children in distress, as well as insomnia and a breakdown in personal and religious relationships.

After Cenzon-DeCarlo filed a grievance over the incident, Mount Sinai allegedly began to retaliate against her by cutting her hours and pressuring her to sign an agreement that she would assist in performing abortions in the case of an "emergency." Cenzon-DeCarlo refused to sign the agreement.

Mount Sinai declined LifeSiteNews.com's request for comment on the litigation.

ADF attorneys filed the complaint in Cenzon-DeCarlo v. The Mount Sinai Hospital with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. They are also requesting a preliminary injunction that would order the hospital to honor Cenzon-DeCarlo's religious objection against assisting in abortion and refrain from retaliation against her while the case moves forward.

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"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 28, 1976

The awesome Bayside Prophecies... https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/default.htm
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

SIN OF OMISSION
"The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell. Among them there will be also mitres." - Our Lady, October 6, 1980

U.S. SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
"One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975

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Your names have been written in Heaven… "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for your names have been written in Heaven.... But with this great grace you have great responsibility to send this Message from Heaven throughout the world, for if you are able to recover just one more for Heaven, an additional star shall be placed in your crown." - Jesus, August 5, 1975

A great obligation to go forward... "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for it is by merit and the prayers that have risen to Heaven for your salvation. For those who have received the grace to hear the Message from Heaven, you have a great obligation to go forward and bring this Message to your brothers and sisters. Do not expect a rest upon your earth, for you will have eternal rest very soon." - Jesus, June 12, 1976

The sin of omission... "The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell." Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1980

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