{"id":4541,"date":"2013-11-07T06:20:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2018-03-06T16:12:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:12:53","slug":"abortion-law-changes-eyed-as-dr-mark-hobart-probed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4541","title":{"rendered":"Abortion law changes eyed as Dr Mark Hobart probed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Sydney Morning Herald<\/h3>\n<p class=\"author\">Henrietta Cook<\/p>\n<p>The Napthine government is not ruling out changes to Victoria&#8217;s abortion laws ahead of an investigation into a doctor who refused to give a couple an abortion referral because they wanted a boy.<\/p>\n<p>The state government said it was interested in the outcome of the Medical Board of Victoria&#8217;s investigation into Mark Hobart, a pro-life doctor who has been accused of breaking the state&#8217;s abortion laws.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as pro-life advocates run a concerted campaign to repeal a section of the Abortion Law Reform Act, which requires doctors who have a conscientious objection to abortion to refer a woman to someone with no such objection. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/victoria\/abortion-law-changes-eyed-as-dr-mark-hobart-probed-20131107-2x2rg.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Morning Herald Henrietta Cook The Napthine government is not ruling out changes to Victoria&#8217;s abortion laws ahead of an investigation into a doctor who refused to give a couple an abortion referral because they wanted a boy. The state government said it was interested in the outcome of the Medical Board of Victoria&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abortion law changes eyed as Dr Mark Hobart probed&#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":[46,30,9],"tags":[1075,521,1074,1517,293,443],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-australia","category-news","tag-australian-health-practitioners-regulation-agency","tag-australian-medical-association","tag-doctors-in-conscience","tag-mark-hobart","tag-referral","tag-victoria"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Abortion law changes eyed as Dr Mark Hobart probed - 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=4541\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abortion law changes eyed as Dr Mark Hobart probed - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Sydney Morning Herald Henrietta Cook The Napthine government is not ruling out changes to Victoria&#8217;s abortion laws ahead of an investigation into a doctor who refused to give a couple an abortion referral because they wanted a boy. 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