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Foothills Hospital Now Forces Nurses To Participate In Genetic\u00a0Terminations<\/h2>\n

Calgary, Alberta, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Marnie Ko<\/p>\n

\u00a0“The present mood is…chaotic, helpless, frustrated\u00a0and highly emotional,” Sally wrote. In the past weeks, I have witnessed\u00a0tears, breakdowns, illnesses, and stress such as never before…Sick calls\u00a0have been high and experienced staff nearly impossible to recruit.”<\/h5>\n

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Though the tiny infant had been condemned to die, distraught nurses at Calgary’s Foothills Hospital spent hours last August caring for it anyway.<\/p>\n

“The mother didn’t want the baby, so we took turns rocking and holding it for 12 hours until it finally died,” says Foothills nurse “Catherine,” whose real name has been withheld to protect her job. “Nurses were only allowed to comfort the suffering infant, but this did not even include feedings.”<\/p>\n

The rejected baby’s fate was sealed when it survived a “genetic termination,” an abortion performed only five weeks before the mother’s due date. Doctors had told her that her baby had lethal genetic defects. But Catherine could see only a baby. “I was sick for weeks,” she says. [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foothills Hospital Now Forces Nurses To Participate In Genetic\u00a0Terminations Calgary, Alberta, Canada \u00a0Marnie Ko \u00a0“The present mood is…chaotic, helpless, frustrated\u00a0and highly emotional,” Sally wrote. In the past weeks, I have witnessed\u00a0tears, breakdowns, illnesses, and stress such as never before…Sick calls\u00a0have been high and experienced staff nearly impossible to recruit.”   Though the tiny infant had … Continue reading “Personal Qualms Don’t Count”<\/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":[46,32,19],"tags":[54,3319,665,662,622,664,261,663],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-canada","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-alberta","tag-foothills-hospital-alberta-canada","tag-joanne-hatton","tag-marnie-ko","tag-maurice-vellacott","tag-norma-kirkham","tag-nurses","tag-shirley-popadiuk"],"yoast_head":"\r\nPersonal Qualms Don't Count - 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=3241\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Personal Qualms Don't Count - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Foothills Hospital Now Forces Nurses To Participate In Genetic\u00a0Terminations Calgary, Alberta, Canada \u00a0Marnie Ko \u00a0“The present mood is…chaotic, helpless, frustrated\u00a0and highly emotional,” Sally wrote. 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