{"id":786,"date":"2002-06-26T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=786"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:57:14","slug":"crisis-at-philadelphia-hospital-highlights-the-violation-of-womens-rights-due-to-mismanagement-of-our-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Crisis at Philadelphia Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highlights The Violation Of Women\u2019s Rights Due To Mismanagement Of Our Health System<\/h2>\n

NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

EMBARGO: Immediate Release Date: 26 June 2002<\/p>\n

Doctors for Life International<\/a><\/p>\n

Doctors For Life (DFL), an organisation of\u00a0about 770 doctors, places the blame for the lack of staff to support women having abortions at Philadelphia hospital, squarely on the shoulders of the South African government. Before the government bulldozed the law to\u00a0legalise abortion on demand through Parliament, DFL warned via numerous press releases that the infrastructure to implement the law does not\u00a0exist.<\/p>\n

Firstly, there were not enough doctors and nursing staff who did not\u00a0have conscientious objection against assisting with abortions. The\u00a0government ignored us even when this fact was repeated in our submissions\u00a0 before the Select Committee on Abortion in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the lack of sonographic equipment to determine the gestational age of the unborn baby before an abortion made a mockery of\u00a0the legislation (the law allowed abortion for a certain gestational age\u00a0for different reasons).<\/p>\n

The biggest survey ever done amongst doctors showed that more than 80% of South African doctors are against abortion on demand. The government was fully aware of this attitude when they forced the members of the ANC to vote against their consciences in\u00a0support of “Termination of Pregnancy”. They should therefore not be\u00a0surprised when only 5 of the 27 hospitals in Mpumalanga have staff who are willing to take part in abortions.<\/p>\n

In what appears to be a hypocritical move, the government seems concerned when women in the Carte Blanche programme\u00a0had to deliver their own aborted babies, while the Department of Health is\u00a0busy introducing the abortion pill (RU486) which will have the same result of causing women to abort at home.<\/p>\n

DFL also had special meetings with the\u00a0Health Professionals Council of South Africa where we explained the\u00a0 dilemma of pro-life health professionals. We mentioned that it strikes us as unethical that some health professionals are prescribing abortifacients and then tell the patient to go to a hospital, manned by pro-life staff, to have the abortion completed. This appeared like a strategy to force\u00a0unwilling, ethically sound health professionals to take part in killing one patient (the unborn child) at the request of another (the mother). It\u00a0boiled down to a doctor starting the procedure and then referring the\u00a0patient for the “mopping up” of the procedure to pro-life staff.<\/p>\n

It is a well-known fact amongst nursing staff that doctors list abortions as sterilisation procedures on theatre\u00a0lists. Once the staff is in the theatre, scrubbed and half way through the\u00a0procedure, they discover that the doctor is doing an abortion.<\/p>\n

DFL therefore calls upon the government to accept responsibility for the dilemma women find themselves in. Something should be done about the pressure on health workers to take part in the abortion procedure<\/a>.\u00a0 The public should be well informed if a certain clinic\/hospital is unwilling to perform abortions. Once a hospital is identified as an abortion provider, the Department of Health must make sure that there are\u00a0enough pro-abortion staff to render a 24 hour service, 7 days a week.<\/p>\n

It must, however, be stated once again that health professionals do have the constitutional right NOT to\u00a0 participate in ANY part of the abortion procedure.<\/p>\n

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Enquiries:<\/strong> Dr Jay Mannie (Dep. CEO) Mobile phone: +27(0)83 6414 382<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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