{"id":5457,"date":"2014-12-17T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T05:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:51:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:51:40","slug":"catholic-midwives-abortion-ruling-overturned-by-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5457","title":{"rendered":"Catholic midwives&#8217; abortion ruling overturned by supreme court"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0Judges rule against Mary Doogan and Concepta Wood, who brought case objecting to any involvement in abortions<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Libby Brooks<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s supreme court has ruled that two Catholic midwives do not have the right to refuse to help other nurses with abortion procedures or planning.<\/p>\n<p>Upholding an appeal by Greater Glasgow health board, the court found that Mary Doogan, 58, and Concepta Wood, 52, who worked as labour ward co-ordinators at the southern general hospital in Glasgow, did not have a legal right to object to helping with abortions in any way.<\/p>\n<p>As conscientious objectors, the senior midwives have had no direct role in pregnancy terminations, but they argued that they should also be entitled to refuse to delegate, supervise and support staff involved in the procedures or providing care to patients during the process.<\/p>\n<p>Reproductive rights campaigners were concerned that a decision by the court of session in Edinburgh in favour of the women&#8217;s case last year could have wide-ranging implications for the way the NHS dealt with other health staff who opposed abortions on religious grounds. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/17\/catholic-midwives-abortion-ruling-overturned\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Judges rule against Mary Doogan and Concepta Wood, who brought case objecting to any involvement in abortions The Guardian Libby Brooks The UK&#8217;s supreme court has ruled that two Catholic midwives do not have the right to refuse to help other nurses with abortion procedures or planning. Upholding an appeal by Greater Glasgow health board, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catholic midwives&#8217; abortion ruling overturned by supreme court&#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":[46,217,9,295,19,757],"tags":[123,1484,231,237,253,270,1441,316],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-lawsuits","category-news","category-religious-freedom","category-repression-of-conscience","category-united-kingdom","tag-connie-wood","tag-gillian-smith","tag-mary-doogan","tag-midwives","tag-national-health-service-greater-glasgow-and-clyde","tag-participation","tag-royal-college-of-midwives","tag-scotland"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Catholic midwives&#039; abortion ruling overturned by supreme court - 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=5457\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catholic midwives&#039; abortion ruling overturned by supreme court - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Judges rule against Mary Doogan and Concepta Wood, who brought case objecting to any involvement in abortions The Guardian Libby Brooks The UK&#8217;s supreme court has ruled that two Catholic midwives do not have the right to refuse to help other nurses with abortion procedures or planning. 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