Color me skeptical on this one. A Long Island woman claims that she killed her baby because her boss at a delicatessen made her. And now she wants money for her suffering. No word on how much money she will give to the dead baby for its suffering.
Your unborn baby — or your job.
That’s the chilling choice a Long Island woman claims she faced when her boss discovered she was pregnant with her third child, according to a federal lawsuit.
Catherine Rizzo, 25, says there was no way to misinterpret her supervisor’s ultimatum at Cooky’s Deli in Bohemia in May.
“The owner’s daughter pulled me in the office, and basically told me if I didn’t have an abortion, I wasn’t going to have a job,” Rizzo told The Post in a tearful interview.
“It was very, very clear,” she said.
“I have two other kids I have to take care of, and I needed my job,” Rizzo added.
Yeah, so I guess the baby had to die. I mean it is almost impossible to get a job as good as working in a deli. If someone has to die, someone has to die.
Cooky’s Deli owner Martin Marsilio, 69, vehemently denied the allegation, calling it “a total lie…The abortion claim is nothing more than “fiction,” Marsilio said.
“We have had many female employees here that have gotten pregnant, had their children, took time off and came back to work,” he insisted.”
Look, any person who would kill their own child to keep a job and then try to get money for it is about as low on the scale of trustworthiness as you can get. I dunno if the Deli owner is a bad person, but I do know about her.
January 2, 2012 at 11:56 am
If it isn't true, what this woman is claiming about the owner of the deli, that owner has one heck of a defamation suit against this woman.
Abortion is a horrible thing. How horrible is it to accuse someone of forcing you to have an abortion?
January 2, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Maybe she's weak willed or has a low IQ or maybe there is something more to the story. Who is the father? Or she might be a money grubbing liar.
January 2, 2012 at 6:08 pm
really? this was a plot of a tv show… Harry's Law I believe.
January 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Wow. This is kind of uncharitable. None of us know enough about any of the people involved to judge their relative credibility.
But I definitely know this – there are people in the world who make these sorts of ultimatums, sometimes veiled, sometimes bluntly. And there are LOTS of women, vulnerable, alone, weak-willed, ignorant, or otherwise easily coercible who do things they loathe because they succumb to pressure. And then they regret it, often the more bitterly because they knew it was wrong and stupid.
This is essentially the story of abortion from time immemorial, and if you don't find it plausible, then what exactly do you imagine is going on when millions of ordinary women go against their God-given nature and slaughter the person most valuable to them in the world within the protected recesses of their own bodies?
What an odd plan it would be to concoct a story like that for money if nothing of the sort was ever said or even intimated. But none of us knows the truth. It just seems to me that there is no better reason to give the employers the benefit of the doubt than the woman herself. Unless all post-abortive women are to be deemed untrustworthy because of that act alone…a position I've never known pro-lifers to hold. I thought we recognized that abortion victimizes at least two people, and that post-abortive women need our help and prayers, especially in cases of possible coercion.
January 2, 2012 at 9:56 pm
The Father is where? We live in age where no one believes in the
Virgin Birth but everyone thinks babies appear without fathers.
January 3, 2012 at 12:07 am
Somebody's lying, and it may not be the woman suing, but why–after all that–why go after them for something as unsatisfying as money? If she thought she had grounds to sue, why not do it before killing her baby?
It's definitely possible, though, that this woman was given an ultimatum, had an abortion because her own parents never taught her the meaning of moral courage (or maybe they did, and she was just too scared, proud, weak or stupid to choose her baby first). And now she figures, "I've been through hell, and now someone is gonna pay!" She'll be paying for it for the rest of her life, though–as will anyone else responsible in any way for that murder. Eventually, it catches up.