Catholic nurse's suits allege abortion violated conscience rights
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WASHINGTON — A Catholic nurse is suing New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and some members of its medical staff, charging that her conscience rights were violated when she was compelled to help with a late-term abortion last year.
A lawsuit filed April 29 on behalf of Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo alleges that the nurse's conscience rights under state law were violated by her forced participation in a late-term, non-emergency abortion in May 2009, despite the fact that Cenzon-DeCarlo had notified the hospital of her religious objections to abortion before she was hired in 2004.
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