{"id":5041,"date":"2014-08-28T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T05:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:28:54","slug":"citizens-initiative-calls-for-right-to-conscientious-objection-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5041","title":{"rendered":"Citizens&#8217; initiative calls for right to conscientious objection in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Helsinki Times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 18,000 Finns have expressed their support for a citizens&#8217; initiative calling for a right to health care professionals to refuse to participate in performing abortions on grounds of personal or religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative will be presented to the Parliament for discussion if it accumulates a minimum of 50,000 statements of support. An earlier bill on abortion only received marginal support beyond the ranks of the Christian Democrats.\u00a0. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinkitimes.fi\/finland\/finland-news\/domestic\/11797-citizens-initiative-calls-for-right-to-conscientious-objection-in-health-care.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Full Text<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansalaisaloite.fi\/fi\/aloite\/860\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Terveydenhuollon henkil\u00f6kunnalle lakis\u00e4\u00e4teinen oikeus kielt\u00e4yty\u00e4 el\u00e4m\u00e4n opettamisesta vakaumuksellisista syist\u00e4<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki Times Over 18,000 Finns have expressed their support for a citizens&#8217; initiative calling for a right to health care professionals to refuse to participate in performing abortions on grounds of personal or religious convictions. The initiative will be presented to the Parliament for discussion if it accumulates a minimum of 50,000 statements of support. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Citizens&#8217; initiative calls for right to conscientious objection in health care&#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":[46,1280,9],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-finland","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Citizens&#039; initiative calls for right to conscientious objection in health care - 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=5041\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Citizens&#039; initiative calls for right to conscientious objection in health care - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Helsinki Times Over 18,000 Finns have expressed their support for a citizens&#8217; initiative calling for a right to health care professionals to refuse to participate in performing abortions on grounds of personal or religious convictions. 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