{"id":3251,"date":"1988-03-30T18:28:25","date_gmt":"1988-03-30T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2013-07-30T18:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T18:36:20","slug":"nurses-fight-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Nurses Fight for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>21 out of 30 paediatric nurses resign<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mississauga, Ontario, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Michael Otis<\/p>\n<h5>\u00a0&#8220;The consequences for not meeting these\u00a0expectations,&#8221; warns Bachle, &#8220;will be disciplinary action immediately, up to\u00a0 and including termination.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>Some Toronto area hospitals are forcing nurses to perform abortions. At a press conference called on February 16 by Nurses for Life, spokeswomen Kathleen Winarski and Helen McGee detailed the situation of nurses who face discrimination or loss of employment for refusing to assist with abortions. In a letter released to the press, Margaret Madill, President of Nurses for Life called upon Health Minister Elinor Caplan to &#8220;give nurses the assurance that their personal and\/or religious beliefs will not be violated by forced participation in the termination of human life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month the Paediateric and Gynaecology Departments of Mississauga&#8217;s Credit Valley Hospital were amalgamated. From now on, therefore, second trimester abortions will be carried out on the pediatric floor itself, by pediatric nurses. . . .\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/repression\/repression005.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 out of 30 paediatric nurses resign Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Michael Otis \u00a0&#8220;The consequences for not meeting these\u00a0expectations,&#8221; warns Bachle, &#8220;will be disciplinary action immediately, up to\u00a0 and including termination.&#8221; Some Toronto area hospitals are forcing nurses to perform abortions. At a press conference called on February 16 by Nurses for Life, spokeswomen Kathleen Winarski &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nurses Fight for Freedom&#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":[46,32,9,19],"tags":[675,673,677,674,261,384],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-canada","category-news","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-elinor-caplan","tag-kathleen-winarski","tag-margaret-bachle","tag-margaret-madill","tag-nurses","tag-ontario"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Nurses Fight for Freedom - 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=3251\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nurses Fight for Freedom - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"21 out of 30 paediatric nurses resign Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Michael Otis \u00a0&#8220;The consequences for not meeting these\u00a0expectations,&#8221; warns Bachle, &#8220;will be disciplinary action immediately, up to\u00a0 and including termination.&#8221; Some Toronto area hospitals are forcing nurses to perform abortions. 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