{"id":1898,"date":"2012-11-21T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2012-11-21T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:05:56","slug":"american-obstetrician-comments-on-death-of-woman-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"American obstetrician comments on death of woman in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obstetrician Lisa Harris, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1206253?query=TOC%20-%20ref3\"> column in the New England Journal of Medicine<\/a> asserted that protection of conscience laws fail to recognize that abortion providers are motivated by conscientious convictions, repeated her arguments in an interview with the New Scientist magazine.\u00a0 While she admitted that the circumstances of the death of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland are not clear, she speculated that the Halappanavar might not have died had an abortion been provided.\u00a0 She stated that similar problems arise in denominational hospitals in the United States.\u00a0 She described the case of a woman who was referred to her with a &#8220;septic abortion &#8221; because the foetus was still alive, and the religiously affilicated hospital where she was first treated would not induce an abortion.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn22507-abortion-providers-are-motivated-by-conscience-too.html\"><em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obstetrician Lisa Harris, whose column in the New England Journal of Medicine asserted that protection of conscience laws fail to recognize that abortion providers are motivated by conscientious convictions, repeated her arguments in an interview with the New Scientist magazine.\u00a0 While she admitted that the circumstances of the death of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American obstetrician comments on death of woman in Ireland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,4,5,41],"tags":[219,315],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-commentary","category-ethics","category-ireland","tag-lisa-harris","tag-savita-halappanavar"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>American obstetrician comments on death of woman in Ireland - 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