{"id":817,"date":"2009-08-19T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=817"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:54:07","slug":"adf-rebuts-ny-hospitals-claim-that-pro-life-nurse-cant-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"ADF rebuts NY hospital\u2019s claim that pro-life nurse can\u2019t sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>ADF attorneys respond to claims of Mount Sinai Hospital <\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>\n19 August, 2009<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/\">Alliance Defense Fund <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK <\/strong>\u2014 Alliance Defense Fund attorneys submitted a brief in federal court Monday in response to the claim of New York\u2019s Mount Sinai Hospital that a pro-life nurse who sued the hospital has no right to defend herself in court.\u00a0 ADF filed suit after the hospital forced senior nurse Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo to participate in a late-term abortion procedure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPro-life nurses shouldn\u2019t be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs.\u00a0 Nonetheless, Mount Sinai Hospital is multiplying its injustices against nurse Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo,\u201d said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman.\u00a0 \u201cFirst it disregarded Cathy\u2019s conscience; now it argues she can\u2019t go to court to defend her rights.\u00a0 Mount Sinai Hospital does not have the right to disregard federal law and then refuse to face the consequences of its actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Administrators at Mount Sinai Hospital threatened Cenzon-DeCarlo with disciplinary measures if she did not honor a last-minute summons to assist in a scheduled late-term abortion.\u00a0 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. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/2694\"> ADF attorneys filed suit<\/a> on behalf of Cenzon-DeCarlo in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the hospital submitted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telladf.org\/UserDocs\/MtSinaiBrief.pdf\">brief<\/a> to the court Aug. 10 arguing that the lawsuit should be dismissed because the federal law at issue \u201cdoes not grant individual litigants a private right of action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telladf.org\/UserDocs\/ADFresponseMtSinai.pdf\">ADF attorneys responded to the brief<\/a> Monday, noting, \u201cMount Sinai\u2019s compulsion violates 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 300a-7(c), \u2018the Church Amendment\u2019 (named after Senator Frank Church).\u00a0 This law provides that no recipient of federal health funds may discriminate in the employment or privileges of its health care personnel because of their religious objection to abortion.\u00a0 The law contains no exception letting Mount Sinai compel assistance based on their unbridled judgment that abortion is an \u2018emergency.\u2019\u00a0 Mount Sinai\u2019s actions are a quintessential example of discriminating in employment and privileges on condition that Mrs. DeCarlo violate her objection to abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ADF brief goes on to explain that \u201cMount Sinai compounds its contempt of the law\u201d by denying that the law allows Cenzon-DeCarlo to defend her conscience rights.\u00a0 The brief points out that a federal court just this year \u201cnot only recognized an individual right, but allowed the plaintiff (in that case an abortion supporter) to seek punitive damages.\u201d\u00a0 It also points out that the federal law involves all of the factors that the U.S. Supreme Court has used to recognize such rights and that Congress obviously intended to protect individuals from discrimination under the law it created.<\/p>\n<p>New York ADF-allied attorneys Joseph Ruta and Piero Tozzi are serving as local counsel in the case, <em> Cenzon-DeCarlo v. The Mount Sinai Hospital<\/em>.\u00a0 The court will hold a pre-trial conference on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/home\/contact\">ADF MEDIA RELATIONS<\/a>\u00a0 (480) 444-0020<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/home\/about\">strategy, training, funding, and litigation<\/a> to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADF attorneys respond to claims of Mount Sinai Hospital NEWS RELEASE 19 August, 2009 Alliance Defense Fund NEW YORK \u2014 Alliance Defense Fund attorneys submitted a brief in federal court Monday in response to the claim of New York\u2019s Mount Sinai Hospital that a pro-life nurse who sued the hospital has no right to defend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ADF rebuts NY hospital\u2019s claim that pro-life nurse can\u2019t sue&#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":[46,217,10,28],"tags":[57,3233,3273,381,261],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-lawsuits","category-news-releases","category-usa","tag-alliance-defending-freedom","tag-cathy-cenzon-de-carlo","tag-mount-sinai-hospital-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-nurses"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>ADF rebuts NY hospital\u2019s claim that pro-life nurse can\u2019t sue - 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