{"id":2706,"date":"2013-04-28T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2013-06-02T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T09:32:29","slug":"australian-physician-threatened-with-discipline-for-refusing-to-refer-for-sex-selective-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2706","title":{"rendered":"Australian physician threatened with discipline for refusing to refer for sex-selective abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Couple wanted a boy &#8211; \u00a0wanted to abort girl<\/h2>\n<p>Dr. Mark Hobart, a physician in Melbourne, Australia,\u00a0refused to refer a couple for an\u00a0abortion at 19 weeks gestation.\u00a0 The couple wanted the abortion because they had learned that the woman was carrying a girl.\u00a0 They wanted a boy, not a girl.\u00a0 They found another physician without the referral and had the abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Under the state of Victoria&#8217;s Abortion Law Reform Act 2008, objecting physicians are obliged to refer patients seeking abortions to a willing colleague.\u00a0 The law was passed despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal037.aspx\">vigorous opposition <\/a>from health care workers who protested the Act&#8217;s suppression of freedom of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hobart is aware of the law and refuses, for reasons of conscience,\u00a0to conform to it. 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