{"id":7971,"date":"2015-05-24T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T00:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2018-03-07T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:55:22","slug":"norton-to-ensure-public-hospitals-offer-abortion-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7971","title":{"rendered":"Norton to ensure public hospitals offer abortion services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stabroek News<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has committed to making abortion available at all public health facilities in Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law says that it is a woman&#8217;s right to have a medical termination of a pregnancy if she so desires. It is therefore the government&#8217;s duty to provide that facility,&#8221; Norton told Stabroek News on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Norton stressed that this commitment is not him personally advocating anything but <span id=\"more-335910\"> <\/span>simply fulfilling the mandate of his ministry. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2015\/news\/stories\/05\/24\/norton-to-ensure-public-hospitals-offer-abortion-services\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stabroek News Staff Writer Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has committed to making abortion available at all public health facilities in Guyana. &#8220;The law says that it is a woman&#8217;s right to have a medical termination of a pregnancy if she so desires. It is therefore the government&#8217;s duty to provide that facility,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Norton to ensure public hospitals offer abortion services&#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":[46,754,9],"tags":[3176,3179],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-guyana","category-news","tag-guyana-responsible-parenthood-association","tag-harvard-th-chan-school-of-public-health"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Norton to ensure public hospitals offer abortion services - 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=7971\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Norton to ensure public hospitals offer abortion services - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stabroek News Staff Writer Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has committed to making abortion available at all public health facilities in Guyana. &#8220;The law says that it is a woman&#8217;s right to have a medical termination of a pregnancy if she so desires. 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