{"id":2013,"date":"2011-08-13T05:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2012-12-19T05:44:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:44:57","slug":"equality-legislation-used-to-defend-conscientious-objection-to-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2013","title":{"rendered":"Equality legislation used to defend conscientious objection to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0(United Kingdom: 2011)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Smeaton<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#John_Smeaton\">* <\/a>| The two nurses . . .were employed at a hospital for ordinary nursing duties. They were then allocated to work once a week at an abortion clinic in the hospital. The abortion process did not involve surgical abortion but the increasingly common process of &#8220;early medical abortion&#8221; . . .When they became aware that they were participating in abortion they told their management that they did not want to continue but were then told that they had no choice in the matter. . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/repression\/repression059.aspx\"><strong>Full Text<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(United Kingdom: 2011) John Smeaton* | The two nurses . . .were employed at a hospital for ordinary nursing duties. They were then allocated to work once a week at an abortion clinic in the hospital. The abortion process did not involve surgical abortion but the increasingly common process of &#8220;early medical abortion&#8221; . . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2013\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Equality legislation used to defend conscientious objection to abortion&#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":[46,9,19,757],"tags":[261,311],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-news","category-repression-of-conscience","category-united-kingdom","tag-nurses","tag-ru486"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Equality legislation used to defend conscientious objection to abortion - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2013\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Equality legislation used to defend conscientious objection to abortion - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0(United Kingdom: 2011) John Smeaton* | The two nurses . . .were employed at a hospital for ordinary nursing duties. 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