{"id":7885,"date":"2017-11-03T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2017-11-08T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T22:25:10","slug":"christian-nurse-sues-hospital-for-requiring-her-to-assist-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7885","title":{"rendered":"Christian nurse sues hospital for requiring her to assist abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Lifesite News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Claire Chretien<\/p>\n<p>DURHAM, North Carolina, November 3, 2017 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2013 A Catholic nurse is suing\u00a0Duke University Hospital, claiming that the university\u00a0discriminated against her religious and pro-life beliefs by requiring her to assist in abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Sara T. Pedro was told during her employee orientation that Duke University Hospital provides no exceptions to employees in its Emergency Department who don&#8217;t want to participate in abortions. The lawsuit, filed by The Thomas More Law Center on Pedro&#8217;s behalf, says that Duke&#8217;s Emergency Department performs &#8220;a large number of abortions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FILED-Complaint_Pedro-v.-Duke-University-et-al..pdf\"> lawsuit<\/a> claims that Pedro faced retaliation and discrimination after she made a written request to be exempt from the pro-abortion policy. . . 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Pedro was told during her employee orientation that Duke University Hospital provides no exceptions to employees in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christian nurse sues hospital for requiring her to assist abortions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,28],"tags":[3076,522,261,3077],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-news","category-usa","tag-duke-university-hospital","tag-north-carolina","tag-nurses","tag-sara-t-pedro"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Christian nurse sues hospital for requiring her to assist abortions - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7885\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christian nurse sues hospital for requiring her to assist abortions - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lifesite News Claire Chretien DURHAM, North Carolina, November 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) \u2013 A Catholic nurse is suing\u00a0Duke University Hospital, claiming that the university\u00a0discriminated against her religious and pro-life beliefs by requiring her to assist in abortions. 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