{"id":9208,"date":"2018-12-19T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T05:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2019-04-19T21:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T04:54:32","slug":"supreme-court-opines-on-limitations-of-gps-freedom-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9208","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court opines on limitations of GPs&#8217; freedom of conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em> International Law Office <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\"> Lise Gran, Ole Kristian Olseby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Supreme Court recently deemed that a municipality&#8217;s termination of its agreement with a general practitioner (GP) after she refused to insert an intrauterine device (IUD) for a patient for reasons of conscience relating to her religion was invalid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legal background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The criterion for terminating an agreement with a GP is the same as that for terminating an employment agreement under Norwegian law (ie, it must be objectively justified). . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationallawoffice.com\/Newsletters\/Healthcare-Life-Sciences\/Norway\/Homble-Olsby-Advokatfirma-AS\/Supreme-Court-opines-on-limitations-of-GPs-freedom-of-conscience\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Law Office Lise Gran, Ole Kristian Olseby The Supreme Court recently deemed that a municipality&#8217;s termination of its agreement with a general practitioner (GP) after she refused to insert an intrauterine device (IUD) for a patient for reasons of conscience relating to her religion was invalid. Legal background The criterion for terminating an agreement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supreme Court opines on limitations of GPs&#8217; freedom of conscience&#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":[650,217,8,9,1334],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contraception","category-lawsuits","category-legal-commentary","category-news","category-norway"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Supreme Court opines on limitations of GPs&#039; freedom of conscience - 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=9208\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court opines on limitations of GPs&#039; freedom of conscience - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"International Law Office Lise Gran, Ole Kristian Olseby The Supreme Court recently deemed that a municipality&#8217;s termination of its agreement with a general practitioner (GP) after she refused to insert an intrauterine device (IUD) for a patient for reasons of conscience relating to her religion was invalid. 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