{"id":3282,"date":"2013-06-27T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T05:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2018-03-08T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:47:28","slug":"letter-to-general-medical-council-uk-re-conscientious-objection-to-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Letter to General Medical Council (UK) re: conscientious objection to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">\u00a0Peter Saunders<\/p>\n<p>When two Glasgow midwives won the right to opt out of supervising abortions last April I <a href=\"http:\/\/pjsaunders.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/04\/gmc-and-rmc-must-now-move-urgently-to.html\"> suggested<\/a> that the General Medical Council (GMC) needed to revise its professional guidance on the matter which now seemed to be at odds with the law.<\/p>\n<p>At the time Niall Dickson (pictured), the GMC&#8217;s chief executive, actually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/apr\/24\/catholic-midwives-win-right-object-abortion-scotland\">told the Guardian<\/a> that the GMC would need to consider the implications of the judges&#8217; decision on its guidance. He is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i>We will study the outcome of this ruling, which has just come out, to see if there are any implications for our guidance. We already have clear guidance which says that doctors should be open with employers and colleagues so they can practise in accordance with their beliefs without compromising patient care.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As I have heard nothing further from the GMC about the matter, and almost two months have passed, I have today written to Mr Dickson to ask what is happening. [<a href=\"http:\/\/pjsaunders.blogspot.ca\/2013\/06\/my-letter-to-general-medical-council.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Peter Saunders When two Glasgow midwives won the right to opt out of supervising abortions last April I suggested that the General Medical Council (GMC) needed to revise its professional guidance on the matter which now seemed to be at odds with the law. At the time Niall Dickson (pictured), the GMC&#8217;s chief executive, actually\u00a0told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letter to General Medical Council (UK) re: conscientious objection to abortion&#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":[46,5,757],"tags":[699,123,3241,231,253,696],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-united-kingdom","tag-christian-medical-fellowship","tag-connie-wood","tag-general-medical-council-gmc-uk","tag-mary-doogan","tag-national-health-service-greater-glasgow-and-clyde","tag-peter-saunders"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Letter to General Medical Council (UK) re: conscientious objection to abortion - 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=3282\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter to General Medical Council (UK) re: conscientious objection to abortion - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Peter Saunders When two Glasgow midwives won the right to opt out of supervising abortions last April I suggested that the General Medical Council (GMC) needed to revise its professional guidance on the matter which now seemed to be at odds with the law. 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