{"id":7674,"date":"2017-04-24T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:43:02","slug":"new-threat-to-nurses-and-midwives-over-abortions-warns-christian-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7674","title":{"rendered":"New threat to nurses and midwives over abortions, warns Christian nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Christian Today<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Ruth Gledhill<\/p>\n<p>A leading Christian nurse is warning that nurses and midwives could find themselves under new pressures to be involved with abortions and other procedures that go against their conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Fouch, head of nursing with the the Christian Medical Fellowship Head of Nursing, warns in\u00a0<a title=\"CMF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cmfblog.org.uk\/2017\/04\/21\/new-study-threatens-midwives-freedom-of-conscience-on-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blog<\/a>\u00a0of a \u00a0challenge to the rules that allow doctors to opt out of abortions.<\/p>\n<p>He is writing after <a title=\"abortion study\" href=\"http:\/\/jfprhc.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2017\/01\/18\/jfprhc-2016-101542.long#aff-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new study<\/a>, headlined &#8216;Vacuum aspiration for induced abortion could be safely and legally performed by nurses and midwives&#8217;,\u00a0\u00a0questions the need for abortions to be carried out by doctors in the first place. . . 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Steve Fouch, head of nursing with the the Christian Medical Fellowship Head of Nursing, warns in\u00a0a blog\u00a0of a \u00a0challenge to the rules &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New threat to nurses and midwives over abortions, warns Christian nurse&#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":[46,9,757],"tags":[699,237,261,3347],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-news","category-united-kingdom","tag-christian-medical-fellowship","tag-midwives","tag-nurses","tag-steve-fouch"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>New threat to nurses and midwives over abortions, warns Christian nurse - 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=7674\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New threat to nurses and midwives over abortions, warns Christian nurse - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christian Today Ruth Gledhill A leading Christian nurse is warning that nurses and midwives could find themselves under new pressures to be involved with abortions and other procedures that go against their conscience. 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