{"id":3037,"date":"2013-06-07T00:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T00:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2013-06-07T01:05:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T01:05:38","slug":"ruling-in-favour-of-freedom-of-conscience-to-be-appealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"Ruling in favour of freedom of conscience to be appealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health Service of\u00a0Greater Glasgow and Clyde, regional provider of state health care,\u00a0will attempt to overturn an <a title=\"Appeal succeeds in Scotland: freedom of conscience upheld for midwives\" href=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/?p=2549\" target=\"_blank\">appeal\u00a0court ruling <\/a>favourable\u00a0to freedom of\u00a0conscience for health care workers by appealing to Britain&#8217;s Supreme Court.\u00a0 Two midwives who, for reasons of conscience,\u00a0refused to participate in the supervision and support of staff providing abortions successfully appealed a<a title=\"Scottish judge rules objecting midwives can be forced to facilitate abortions\" href=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/?p=1054\" target=\"_blank\"> lower court ruling <\/a>against them.\u00a0 The judgement of the appeal court was given in April.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishpost.co.uk\/news\/catholic-midwives-abortion-objection-to-be-challenged-at-supreme-court\">Irish Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health Service of\u00a0Greater Glasgow and Clyde, regional provider of state health care,\u00a0will attempt to overturn an appeal\u00a0court ruling favourable\u00a0to freedom of\u00a0conscience for health care workers by appealing to Britain&#8217;s Supreme Court.\u00a0 Two midwives who, for reasons of conscience,\u00a0refused to participate in the supervision and support of staff providing abortions successfully appealed a lower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruling in favour of freedom of conscience to be appealed&#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":[46,7,217,9,757],"tags":[123,231,237,253,270,316],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-law","category-lawsuits","category-news","category-united-kingdom","tag-connie-wood","tag-mary-doogan","tag-midwives","tag-national-health-service-greater-glasgow-and-clyde","tag-participation","tag-scotland"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Ruling in favour of freedom of conscience to be appealed - 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