{"id":4551,"date":"2013-08-23T21:10:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2018-03-06T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:27:04","slug":"american-obgyn-professors-demand-compulsory-referral-by-objecting-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4551","title":{"rendered":"American OB\/Gyn professors demand compulsory referral by objecting physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time<\/em> Magazine reports<\/a> upon a\u00a0statement<\/a> signed by 100 American professors of obstetrics and gynaecology under the headline, “Doctors Urge More Hospitals to Perform Abortions.”\u00a0 The statement expresses frustration that\u00a0abortion policies and laws\u00a0envisioned by\u00a0100 predecessors who signed\u00a0a 1972 letter have not materialized.\u00a0 Notably, the statement reiterates the demand of the original letter that objecting physicians should be compelled to refer for abortion, something many objectors find unacceptable, and insists that all hospitals that admit women should be forced to admit women for abortions – and, presumably, provide them.\u00a0 This would be unacceptable to denominational institutions that object to the procedure.<\/p>\n

The Time<\/em> article notes that only 14% of American obstetrician-gynaecologists perform abortion, and hospitals provide only 4% of abortions done annually.\u00a0 The rest are provided in free-standing clinics.\u00a0 The signatories stress the need for hospitals to respond to the demand for second trimester abortions, which are even more controversial than the much more numerous first trimester procedures.\u00a0 It does not appear that the signatories recognize that requiring hospitals to provide second trimester abortions would likely generate\u00a0more dramatic conflicts of conscience for health care workers who might be pressured to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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