{"id":5913,"date":"2014-07-14T01:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T08:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:00:24","slug":"we-need-to-remember-the-lessons-on-abortion-and-conscience-before-we-legalise-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5913","title":{"rendered":"We need to remember the lessons on abortion and conscience before we legalise assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Catholic Herald<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Francis\u00a0 Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Cases such as Dr. Chazan&#8217;s should make us think twice<\/p>\n<p>On holiday last week I got into conversation with an atheist friend. The subject of abortion came up and whether a doctor or nurse has a right in conscience to refuse to participate in such a &#8220;procedure.&#8221; I cited the recent case of a prominent Polish Catholic doctor who had refused to perform an abortion. My atheist friend was annoyed. &#8220;What do you mean, he refused?&#8221; he said. &#8220;If it&#8217;s the law he has to comply with it.&#8221; By way of bolstering his argument he added, &#8220;Don&#8217;t doctors know that performing abortions is just part of their job?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I countered this by saying that saving life and healing the sick was intrinsic to practising medicine; performing abortions wasn&#8217;t; indeed, the law of 1967 permitting it had run counter to all traditional notions of medicine from the Hippocratic Oath onwards. I added that I had read that many new medical graduates are now refusing to do abortions \u2013 not for religious reasons but because it wasn&#8217;t what they thought doctoring should be about. I added that this made medicine quite different from e.g. conscientious objection in war: being prepared to kill the enemy was intrinsic to soldiering; if you were a pacifist you would know this, so you would refuse to join up on conscientious grounds. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/commentandblogs\/2014\/07\/14\/we-need-to-remember-the-lessons-on-abortion-and-rights-of-conscience-before-we-legalise-assisted-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Herald Francis\u00a0 Phillips Cases such as Dr. Chazan&#8217;s should make us think twice On holiday last week I got into conversation with an atheist friend. The subject of abortion came up and whether a doctor or nurse has a right in conscience to refuse to participate in such a &#8220;procedure.&#8221; I cited the recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We need to remember the lessons on abortion and conscience before we legalise assisted suicide&#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":[46,77],"tags":[1778,220,1897],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","tag-bogdan-chazan","tag-lord-falconer","tag-ordo-iuris-institute"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>We need to remember the lessons on abortion and conscience before we legalise assisted suicide - 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=5913\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We need to remember the lessons on abortion and conscience before we legalise assisted suicide - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Catholic Herald Francis\u00a0 Phillips Cases such as Dr. Chazan&#8217;s should make us think twice On holiday last week I got into conversation with an atheist friend. 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