{"id":7629,"date":"2017-04-28T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2017-10-17T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T21:39:27","slug":"midwife-loses-freedom-of-conscience-case-will-appeal-swedish-law-to-not-be-forced-to-perform-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7629","title":{"rendered":"Midwife loses freedom of conscience case, will appeal Swedish law to not be forced to perform abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Global Dispatch<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Butter Braco<\/p>\n<p>A Christian midwife is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/news\/christian-midwife-told-must-abortions-takes-case-european-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> appealing her case<\/a> to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after she was denied employment opportunities due to her views regarding abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is supporting\u00a0Ellinor Grimmark of Sweden,\u00a0arguing that various places of employment infringed on her freedom of conscience in their refusal to hire her due to her views on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2013, a job offer Grimmark received from a women&#8217;s clinic was withdrawn after it became known that she opposed abortion. A similar scenario occurred in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Grimmark took her case to court in 2015, but the District Court of J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping ruled that freedom of conscience could only be invoked when a person is not religious. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobaldispatch.com\/europe-midwife-loses-freedom-of-conscience-case-will-appeal-swedish-law-to-not-be-forced-to-perform-abortions-89272\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Dispatch Butter Braco A Christian midwife is appealing her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after she was denied employment opportunities due to her views regarding abortion. The\u00a0Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is supporting\u00a0Ellinor Grimmark of Sweden,\u00a0arguing that various places of employment infringed on her freedom of conscience in their refusal to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Midwife loses freedom of conscience case, will appeal Swedish law to not be forced to perform abortions&#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":[46,9,295,19,24],"tags":[57,1177,237],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-news","category-religious-freedom","category-repression-of-conscience","category-sweden","tag-alliance-defending-freedom","tag-ellinor-grimmark","tag-midwives"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Midwife loses freedom of conscience case, will appeal Swedish law to not be forced to perform abortions - 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=7629\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Midwife loses freedom of conscience case, will appeal Swedish law to not be forced to perform abortions - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Global Dispatch Butter Braco A Christian midwife is appealing her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after she was denied employment opportunities due to her views regarding abortion. 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