{"id":2324,"date":"2013-02-12T02:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T10:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:48:22","slug":"mt-sinai-ends-forced-abortion-participation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Sinai Ends Forced Abortion-Participation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0News Release<\/h2>\n

Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n

A newly completed U.S. Department of Health and Human Services investigation<\/a> of New York\u2019s Mt. Sinai Hospital has resulted in additional policy and procedure changes to ensure that medical personnel are not forced to participate in abortions. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Mt. Sinai nurse requested<\/a> the HHS Office of Civil Rights investigation after the hospital forced her to assist in an abortion in violation of her religious beliefs in 2009.<\/p>\n

The changes come in addition to a new policy<\/a> the hospital adopted after Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of the nurse, Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo.<\/p>\n

\u201cPro-life medical personnel shouldn\u2019t be forced to participate in abortions, and the new policies and procedures at Mt. Sinai reflect that,\u201d said Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. \u201cThe hospital seems to have decided to do the right thing and respect the conscience rights of its employees, who are protected by both federal and state law. We will continue to monitor the situation to make sure that the new policy is followed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mt. Sinai\u2019s policy revision states, \u201cIt is the legal right of any individual to refuse to participate in these procedures.\u201d The policy applies regardless of whether the abortion is classified as an elective or emergency procedure and provides a process for \u201calternative coverage\u201d in the event a staff member opts not to participate.<\/p>\n

As a result of the HHS investigation, Mt. Sinai agreed to go further by putting in writing that it will abide by federal conscience protection laws, train employees about the hospital\u2019s obligation to those laws and how to properly keep records of those who are objecting or not objecting to participating in abortions, and update a Human Resource policy to state that the hospital will not engage in any form of employment discrimination based on an employee\u2019s refusal to participate in an abortion.<\/p>\n

Administrators at Mt. Sinai Hospital threatened DeCarlo with disciplinary measures in May 2009 if she did not honor a last-minute summons to assist in a scheduled late-term abortion. Despite the fact that the patient was apparently not in crisis at the time of the surgery, the hospital insisted on her participation in the procedure on the grounds that it was an \u201cemergency,\u201d even though the procedure was not classified by the hospital as such. The hospital has known of the Catholic nurse\u2019s religious objections to abortion since 2004.<\/p>\n

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys asked HHS to investigate in March 2010 and filed, together with lead counsel and allied attorney Joseph Ruta, the lawsuit<\/a> Cenzon-DeCarlo v. The Mount Sinai Hospital<\/em> in Kings County Supreme Court the following month. The lawsuit argues that Mt. Sinai violated state conscience laws as well as state laws against religious employment discrimination and intentionally inflicting emotional distress on an individual. The suit, which is still ongoing, also includes five other claims based on DeCarlo\u2019s coerced participation in the abortion. A federal court dismissed Cenzon-DeCarlo\u2019s federal suit filed in July 2009.<\/p>\n

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