{"id":2158,"date":"2013-01-22T05:33:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T13:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2018-03-09T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:46:24","slug":"uruguays-voluntary-termination-of-pregnancy-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay&#8217;s Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>\u00a0<\/em>Protection of conscience provisions may be defined out of existence<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2012 the Uruguayan legislature passed the <em>Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Act<\/em>, which legalized abortion in the country under certain circumstances.\u00a0 By January, 2013, <em>Reuters<\/em> was reporting that the law was meeting &#8220;fierce opposition&#8221; among Uruguayan gynaecologists, with up to a third of them refusing to provide the procedure for reasons of conscience;<a href=\"#001\">1<\/a> in some locations, almost none will do so. . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal016.aspx\"><strong>Full Text<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Protection of conscience provisions may be defined out of existence Sean Murphy* In the fall of 2012 the Uruguayan legislature passed the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Act, which legalized abortion in the country under certain circumstances.\u00a0 By January, 2013, Reuters was reporting that the law was meeting &#8220;fierce opposition&#8221; among Uruguayan gynaecologists, with up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uruguay&#8217;s Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Act&#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":[46,8,36,287,405],"tags":[317],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-legal-commentary","category-essays","category-protection-of-conscience-project","category-uruguay","tag-sean-murphy"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Uruguay&#039;s Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Act - 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