{"id":5861,"date":"2014-06-27T21:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T04:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:46:52","slug":"the-doctors-declaration-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5861","title":{"rendered":"The doctors&#8217; declaration of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Economist<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">A.H.<\/p>\n<p>THE scene had a melodramatic touch: two stone tablets with an engraved <a title=\"Polish physicians and medical students  declaration of faith and freedom of conscience\" href=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/?p=5380\" target=\"_blank\"> Declaration of Faith <\/a>by Polish doctors who recognise &#8220;the primacy of God&#8217;s laws over human laws&#8221; in medicine were carried last month to a sanctuary in Cz\u0119stochowa, in the south of Poland. The gesture was made out of gratitude for the canonisation of the Polish pope, John Paul II. It was the initiative of a physician and personal friend of the late pope, Wanda P\u00f3\u0142tawska.<\/p>\n<p>The first 3,000 signatories of the declaration thereby announced that they will not violate the Ten Commandments by playing a part in abortion, birth control, in-vitro fertilisation or euthanasia. Abortion until the 25<sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">th<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0week of pregnancy is legal in Poland if the mother&#8217;s life is in grave danger, the foetus is known to have severe birth defects or the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest.<\/p>\n<p>Poland has 377,000 doctors and nurses so the signatories represent barely 1% of the medical profession. And among them are many students, dozens of dentists, four balneologists and a dance therapist (number 1805 on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/d.polskatimes.pl\/k\/r\/1\/28\/c4\/538c8127236e2_z.pdf\">the leaked list<\/a>). . . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/easternapproaches\/2014\/06\/polish-catholicism\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist A.H. THE scene had a melodramatic touch: two stone tablets with an engraved Declaration of Faith by Polish doctors who recognise &#8220;the primacy of God&#8217;s laws over human laws&#8221; in medicine were carried last month to a sanctuary in Cz\u0119stochowa, in the south of Poland. The gesture was made out of gratitude for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The doctors&#8217; declaration of faith&#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":[46,75,643,650,5,162,9,14,453],"tags":[1778,1777,3253,566,1452],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-artificial-reproduction","category-christianity-catholicism","category-contraception","category-ethics","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-poland","category-religion","tag-bogdan-chazan","tag-declaration-of-faith","tag-holy-family-gynaecology-and-obstetrics-hospital-poland","tag-physicians","tag-wanda-poltawska"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>The doctors&#039; declaration of faith - 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=5861\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The doctors&#039; declaration of faith - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Economist A.H. 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