N.Y. nurse sues after forced to aid abortion

Washington Times: “A Roman Catholic nurse who says she felt ‘violated and betrayed, liked I had been raped’ after being forced to take part in a second-trimester abortion is suing a New York City hospital on charges of violating her rights . . . When asked why she didn’t simply walk out of the building, one of her attorneys, Matt Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund, said the plaintiff ‘strenuously protested to the point of tears. Employees should not be forced to choose between their jobs and their beliefs.’

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.

‘It felt like a horror film unfolding,’ she said in a statement . . . “