{"id":5448,"date":"2014-12-17T20:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T04:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T04:33:02","slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-glasgow-midwives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5448","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rules against Glasgow midwives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Midwives, Archbishop of Glasgow and SPUC react to decision announced this morning that fails to protect their right to conscientiously object to supervising abortion<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconews.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Catholic Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Ian Dunn<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has ruled two Glasgow Catholic midwives cannot conscientiously object to supervising abortions performed on labour wards.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Doogan and Connie Wood, the midwives in the case, commented on the ruling, releaed this morning to say the they were &#8216;saddened and extremely disappointed with the verdict&#8217; and suggested it will have a substantial &#8216;detrimental effect&#8217;\u00a0 on &#8216;staff of conscience throughout the UK.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite it having been recognised that the number of abortions on the labour ward at our hospital is in fact a tiny percentage of the workload, which in turn could allow the accommodation of conscientious objection with minimal effort, this judgment, with its constraints and narrow interpretation, has resulted in the provision of a conscience clause which now in practice is meaningless for senior midwives on a labour ward,&#8221; they said. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconews.co.uk\/news\/42305\/supreme-court-rules-against-glasgow-midwives\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Full Text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midwives, Archbishop of Glasgow and SPUC react to decision announced this morning that fails to protect their right to conscientiously object to supervising abortion Scottish Catholic Observer Ian Dunn The Supreme Court has ruled two Glasgow Catholic midwives cannot conscientiously object to supervising abortions performed on labour wards. 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