Catherina is a 35 yr old nurse at NYC's Mt. Sinai Hospital who was hired in 2004 on the basis that she will not participate in any abortions. She is now suing the hospital for violating conscience clauses enacted to protect healthcare workers from being forced to take part in procedures that violate their beliefs. She said she felt "violated and betrayed, like I had been raped" for being forced under threats of being charged with insubordination, to partake in a second trimester murder of a 22 week old baby. Keep in mind we are able to sustain life as early as 21 weeks currently:
She was first told it was a miscarriage and they were doing a D & C, but once she arrived she found out it was an abortion. The woman had pre-eclampsia, which is simply pregnancy-caused high blood pressure (I had it in the last month of my pregnancy). It is not a serious complication, and is very common, and there is no reason to abort, especially since she was not even given the magnesium sulfate used to treat the condition. It was a purely elective second-trimester abortion.
What is most frustrating about the situation is that it could have waited for another nurse to come in, but the head of the hospital threatened Catherina's job if she didn't assist. So she did after protesting and through tears of disgust, horror and shock.
The nurse said she was "forced to watch the doctor remove the bloody arms and legs of the child from its mother's body with forceps" and carry those body parts in a cup to another area of the operating room.
We'll see how the lawsuit goes because the B.O. administration is already hard at work trying to undo the Conscience clauses that Bush enacted. It's so disgusting how important killing babies is to this man and his supporters. We have to force healthcare workers and pharmacists to participate in murder as if it's difficult to get an abortion in this country. B.O. has also undone the Mexico City policy, (in which Sotomayor ruled in favor of the Bush administration) which prohibits U.S. tax dollars from funding abortions by family planning agencies in other countries. Isn't it crazy how much he really enjoys murder, forcing innocent people to partake in it, and for YOU to even pay for it around the world? How could anyone have voted for this man when his FOCA intentions were part of the basis of his campaign (not to mention funding it)? What does he have against babies?
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It makes me feel so sick to just think about an abortion. I think I would quit right there if I was her. That would be too much for me to even watch, let alone help with it. I have a strong stomache for gross stuff but that would do it for me. It's so sad.
i know...i would've just left too. Thats easy for me to say though since I am fully supported and don't need to work...i feel bad for her but. You would think that even if she refused, she would get to keep her job since her contract stated that she wouldn't have to partake in abortions, but with the way pro-life people are treated, the hospital would probably get away with it. She will probably work at another hospital--maybe a catholic one, but if FOCA passes, she won't even be protected there.
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