{"id":5763,"date":"2015-03-04T00:35:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T08:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:28:58","slug":"mp-seeks-to-safeguard-rights-of-anti-abortion-admin-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5763","title":{"rendered":"MP seeks to safeguard rights of anti-abortion admin staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Tablet<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Paul Wilkinson<\/p>\n<p>A Scottish Catholic MP will try to clarify the conscience clause in the 1967 Abortion Act in the next Parliament to allow hospital administrative staff to refuse to work on abortion cases.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Clarke, the Labour member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, has been pressing unsuccessfully for the Prime Minister David Cameron to support clarification of the clause since two Catholic midwives in Scotland failed to convince the Supreme Court that they should be excused from delegating, supervising and supporting staff involved in terminations. The court&#8217;s ruling in December said that conscientious objection only applies to those who participate in procedures or treatments that lead to an abortion. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/news\/1825\/0\/mp-seeks-to-safeguard-rights-of-anti-abortion-admin-staff\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tablet Paul Wilkinson A Scottish Catholic MP will try to clarify the conscience clause in the 1967 Abortion Act in the next Parliament to allow hospital administrative staff to refuse to work on abortion cases. Tom Clarke, the Labour member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, has been pressing unsuccessfully for the Prime Minister David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MP seeks to safeguard rights of anti-abortion admin staff&#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":[46,9,757],"tags":[237],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-news","category-united-kingdom","tag-midwives"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>MP seeks to safeguard rights of anti-abortion admin staff - 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=5763\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MP seeks to safeguard rights of anti-abortion admin staff - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Tablet Paul Wilkinson A Scottish Catholic MP will try to clarify the conscience clause in the 1967 Abortion Act in the next Parliament to allow hospital administrative staff to refuse to work on abortion cases. 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