{"id":6010,"date":"2014-07-07T01:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T08:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:53:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:53:06","slug":"polish-conscience-tested-the-case-of-professor-chazan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6010","title":{"rendered":"Polish conscience tested: the case of Professor Chazan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LifeSite News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Natalia Dueholm<\/p>\n<p>WARSAW, Poland &#8212; The most recent case in Poland&#8217;s abortion wars will test the country&#8217;s conscience.<\/p>\n<p>The case centers around Professor Bogdan Chazan, one of Poland&#8217;s top doctors and director of the Holy Family Hospital in Warsaw (Szpital im. \u015awi\u0119tej Rodziny).\u00a0 Chazan came under fire last month when he refused to perform an abortion on a deformed baby who had been conceived <em>in vitro<\/em> in a fertility clinic.\u00a0 Instead of an abortion, Chazan offered medical advice for the mother, hospital care before, during, and after the pregnancy, and perinatal hospice care for the child.<\/p>\n<p>Although Polish law permits abortion of sick babies until viability, it does not create the <em>right<\/em> to an abortion. It merely decriminalizes abortion for the doctor and the mother.\u00a0 This particular pregnancy did not pose a danger to the woman&#8217;s health. Also, according to Polish law, any physician can invoke the country&#8217;s conscience clause, which ensures that no doctor or medical professional will ever be required to perform, or participate in, an abortion.\u00a0 Nonetheless, Chazan&#8217;s hospital was fined 70,000 zloty (approximately $23,000) for his refusal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/polish-conscience-tested-the-case-of-professor-chazan\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LifeSite News Natalia Dueholm WARSAW, Poland &#8212; The most recent case in Poland&#8217;s abortion wars will test the country&#8217;s conscience. The case centers around Professor Bogdan Chazan, one of Poland&#8217;s top doctors and director of the Holy Family Hospital in Warsaw (Szpital im. \u015awi\u0119tej Rodziny).\u00a0 Chazan came under fire last month when he refused to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6010\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polish conscience tested: the case of Professor Chazan&#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":[46,5,9,14,19],"tags":[1778,3253,1901,805,1898,1897,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-news","category-poland","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-bogdan-chazan","tag-holy-family-gynaecology-and-obstetrics-hospital-poland","tag-institute-of-mother-and-child","tag-matercare-international","tag-national-board-of-medical-doctors","tag-ordo-iuris-institute","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Polish conscience tested: the case of Professor Chazan - 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=6010\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Polish conscience tested: the case of Professor Chazan - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LifeSite News Natalia Dueholm WARSAW, Poland &#8212; The most recent case in Poland&#8217;s abortion wars will test the country&#8217;s conscience. 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