Efforts to support freedom of conscience in health care in Australia have been tarnished by comments made on Facebook posts by a physician identified only as “Dr. K” . The physician became the subject of an investigation and disciplinary hearing after the posts were reported to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. In addition to asserting that he refused to refer for abortions, the physician made several reprehensible remarks. Among them was an assertion that a woman who dies from injuries incurred in a “back alley abortion” deserved to die “for trying to kill her own child.” A physician’s group supporting freedom of conscience in health care issued a statement that it “vehemently disagrees with and utterly repudiates the idea and sentiment that any woman deserves any kind of harm for any reason whatsoever.” [The Age]