{"id":3430,"date":"2013-08-03T01:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T01:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2013-08-06T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T02:13:14","slug":"croation-midwife-fired-for-refusing-to-assist-in-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"Midwife fired for refusing to assist in abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrvatski Ponos (Croatian Pride) Hospital,<br \/>\nKnin, Croatia<\/p>\n<h2>Lost her job in the Knin hospital: &#8220;They fired me\u00a0because I would not participate in abortions&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h6><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodnadalmacija.hr\/Novosti\/Hrvatska\/tabid\/66\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/217614\/Default.aspx\"> Slobodna Dalmacija<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Doctors\u00a0and nurses in Croatia may call upon\u00a0conscientious objection in situations\u00a0when\u00a0their religious beliefs prevent them from\u00a0participating in medical\u00a0procedures contrary to\u00a0the postulates of their faith. One such situation\u00a0is\u00a0the deliberate termination of a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The conscientious\u00a0objector, however, cannot\u00a0be a midwife, at least not at the general hospital\u00a0&#8220;Hrvatski Ponos (Croatian Pride)&#8221; in Knin because, like Jaga\u00a0Stojak, they could lose\u00a0their job.<\/p>\n<p>Jaga\u00a0Stojak (49), after 27 years of service, of\u00a0which the last 14 was spent\u00a0working as a\u00a0midwife in the Knin hospital, received a\u00a0dismissal of her\u00a0contract on June 14 of this\u00a0year, because she refused to participate in an\u00a0abortion citing conscientious objection. \u201cIt was\u00a0not the first time when I,\u00a0as a practicing\u00a0Catholic, refused to participate in that\u00a0procedure. There\u00a0have been many discussions\u00a0and meetings at the hospital because there are\u00a0more midwives who share the same opinion.\u201d [Full Text- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/repression\/repression014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodnadalmacija.hr\/Novosti\/Hrvatska\/tabid\/66\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/217614\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Croatian<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrvatski Ponos (Croatian Pride) Hospital, Knin, Croatia Lost her job in the Knin hospital: &#8220;They fired me\u00a0because I would not participate in abortions&#8221; Slobodna Dalmacija Doctors\u00a0and nurses in Croatia may call upon\u00a0conscientious objection in situations\u00a0when\u00a0their religious beliefs prevent them from\u00a0participating in medical\u00a0procedures contrary to\u00a0the postulates of their faith. One such situation\u00a0is\u00a0the deliberate termination of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Midwife fired for refusing to assist in 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":[46,790,9],"tags":[791,793,792,237,795,799],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-croatia","category-news","tag-hrvatski-ponos","tag-jaga-stojak","tag-knin","tag-midwives","tag-nada-mikulandra","tag-oliveru-ojdanicu"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Midwife fired for refusing to assist in 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=3430\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Midwife fired for refusing to assist in abortion - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hrvatski Ponos (Croatian Pride) Hospital, Knin, Croatia Lost her job in the Knin hospital: &#8220;They fired me\u00a0because I would not participate in abortions&#8221; Slobodna Dalmacija Doctors\u00a0and nurses in Croatia may call upon\u00a0conscientious objection in situations\u00a0when\u00a0their religious beliefs prevent them from\u00a0participating in medical\u00a0procedures contrary to\u00a0the postulates of their faith. 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