A federal statute that bars discrimination against health care workers who refuse to participate in abortion procedures does not create a private right of action, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed that an operating room nurse at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital who said she was compelled to take part in a late-term abortion cannot sue to enforce her rights under the so-called “Church Amendment.”
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