{"id":8029,"date":"2018-02-02T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T02:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8029"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:31:27","slug":"church-calls-for-scottish-bill-to-back-medics-conscience-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8029","title":{"rendered":"Church calls for Scottish Bill to back medics\u2019 conscience rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Scottish Catholic Observer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Amanda Connelly<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Catholic Church in Scotland has called for a bill that gives medical professionals the right to conscientiously object to medical procedures such as abortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The comments come after Baroness O\u2019Loan\u2019s new Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill for England and Wales, which looks to ensure conscience rights for medical professionals, had a second hearing in the House of Lords on Friday January 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the bill only applies to England and Wales, its progress should be of interest to people in Scotland, where hopefully a similar bill could be presented to the Scottish Parliament,\u201d director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office Anthony Horan said. . . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconews.co.uk\/news\/54813\/church-calls-for-scottish-bill-to-back-medics-conscience-rights\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Catholic Observer Amanda Connelly The Catholic Church in Scotland has called for a bill that gives medical professionals the right to conscientiously object to medical procedures such as abortion. The comments come after Baroness O\u2019Loan\u2019s new Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill for England and Wales, which looks to ensure conscience rights for medical professionals, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Church calls for Scottish Bill to back medics\u2019 conscience rights&#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":[46,643,9,760,295,757],"tags":[123,231,2900,3226],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-christianity-catholicism","category-news","category-proposed-laws","category-religious-freedom","category-united-kingdom","tag-connie-wood","tag-mary-doogan","tag-mary-neal","tag-nuala-oloan"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Church calls for Scottish Bill to back medics\u2019 conscience rights - 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=8029\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Church calls for Scottish Bill to back medics\u2019 conscience rights - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scottish Catholic Observer Amanda Connelly The Catholic Church in Scotland has called for a bill that gives medical professionals the right to conscientiously object to medical procedures such as abortion. 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