Catholic nurse forced to participate in abortion

New York City, N.Y., Jul 23, 2009 / 06:05 am (CNA).- The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Catholic nurse who was forced to participate in an abortion, despite voicing her moral objections.Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, was instructed to assist in a late second-trimester abortion for a woman 22 weeks into her pregnancy. The hospital had known of the nurse’s religious objections to abortion since she was hired in 2004.Cenzon-DeCarlo reminded her supervisors of her religious objections, but was told that if she did not participate,...