{"id":751,"date":"2002-11-12T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2002-11-12T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=751"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:22:46","slug":"project-letter-to-the-editor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Project Letter to the Telegraph Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Brunswick, Canada
\n12 November, 2002<\/p>\n

Sean Murphy, Administrator
\nProtection of Conscience Project<\/p>\n

Doctors at the hospital in Moncton have decided to perform only abortions they believe necessary for maternal health, so that scarce health care resources can be dedicated to reducing waiting lists for surgery. Dr. Henry Morgentaler calls this “disgusting”. He also accuses his colleagues of unethical conduct because they appear to be imposing their religious or moral views on patients. (Morgentaler calls decision to halt abortions ‘disgusting’<\/em> 9 November, 2002)<\/p>\n

It is remarkable that Dr. Morgentaler should be disgusted by physicians who perform abortions for \u2018health\u2019 reasons, but not abortions for which there is no medical justification. When he decided to break the law against abortion, it was because he decided to follow something he called his “medical conscience”.1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0His Moncton colleagues, while they will break no law, are doing the same\u00a0thing. Baseless diatribes about \u2018imposing moral beliefs\u2019 are unfair and do nothing to improve health care in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

Dr. Morgentaler has also misrepresented the Code of Ethics of the Canadian Medical Association by implying that it obliges doctors to\u00a0provide abortions. It does not, nor does it require physicians to referfor abortions or other morally controversial procedures.<\/p>\n

Finally, Dr. Morgentaler clearly applies his own moral views in his own medical practice. Upon what basis would he deny his colleagues the same freedom?<\/p>\n

\n

Notes:<\/strong> <\/a>1.\u00a0 Pelrine, Eleanor Wright, Morgentaler: The Doctor Who Couldn\u2019t Turn Away.<\/em> Canada: Gage Publishing, 1975, p. 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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