My first reaction to this story was: 25yrs old, pregnant for third time, and NEEDING this job... she needs a lesson in birth control!!!!


NEW YORK -- A New York woman claims she faced a chilling choice between her unborn baby and her job when her boss discovered that she was pregnant with her third child, according to a federal lawsuit.

Catherine Rizzo, 25, claims there was no way to misinterpret her supervisor's ultimatum at Cooky's Deli in Bohemia, N.Y., 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 New York Post. "It was very, very clear."

She added, "I have two other kids I have to take care of, and I needed my job."

Cooky's Deli owner Martin Marsilio, 69, vehemently denied the allegation, calling it "a total lie."

The struggling single mom said she was barely getting by on the $400 to $500 a week she earned at the deli counter -- and knew she could not afford to lose her job.

"As a direct result of this serious threat, approximately one week later, [I] was forced to terminate [my] pregnancy," Rizzo charged in a lawsuit filed Dec. 19 in Brooklyn federal court. She is seeking unspecified damages.

The unthinkable choice capped months of harassment, Rizzo claims. A co-worker regularly cursed at her, pushed her and told her that she was "a lowlife and a bad mother," the Long Island woman claimed in her lawsuit.

Despite the abortion, she was abruptly fired in August, she said.

Her former boss claimed Rizzo was canned for being chronically late and that she never complained about harassment.

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.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/01/new-york-woman-sues-boss-claiming-pressured-her-into-having-abortion/#ixzz1iTEdJKBz

I smell a rat and it's HER. If she needed that job to support two kids then how was she going to support three???

exactly... she is bs'ing just to make some money

Also, of course this is always where it's a slippery slope because there often ISN'T evidence but if there was SOME proof or something that could actually suggest he DID tell her to get an abortion for the job, that would help, that is a new one on me and I thought I'd heard everything crazy.

Yeah, that story sounds fishy. I don't see how ANY man can make you get an abortion, esp one that didn't impregnate you.

Nystyle709 wrote:

Yeah, that story sounds fishy. I don't see how ANY man can make you get an abortion, esp one that didn't impregnate you.

Unless we aren't getting the full story, and she's been shacking up with her boss and it was his baby, hence his involvement in the abortion-decision. . .

Yeah, I think there is way more to this story. I think there is some truth to it. It seems like a lot to just make up.

tmontyb wrote:

Yeah, I think there is way more to this story. I think there is some truth to it. It seems like a lot to just make up.

I agree. Maybe she was not actually pressured into the abortion, but she was probably missing work so much due to the first two kids it was suggested she not add a third.

The whole thing is fishy but shit happens and she couldn't have been too worried about keeping her job if she got pregnant a third time after already having a track record of missing work.