{"id":9353,"date":"2019-09-04T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T22:49:23","slug":"protection-of-conscience-an-issue-in-backbench-revolt-on-australian-abortion-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9353","title":{"rendered":"Protection of conscience an issue in backbench revolt on Australian abortion bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Demand for compulsory referral by objecting physicians among provisions deemed unacceptable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Liberal Members of Parliament in New South Wales, Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/sep\/03\/nsw-liberal-mps-threaten-to-move-to-crossbench-over-abortion-bill\">have threatened<\/a> to break with their party cross the floor to sit in opposition if the government does not make changes to a bill decriminalizing abortion (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.nsw.gov.au\/bill\/files\/3654\/Second%20Print.pdf\">Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019<\/a>).  Should they do so, the government will lose its parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Among the amendments  Tanya Davies and Kevin Conolly are seeking is removal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/proposed\/australia-nsw-002.aspx\">a requirement <\/a>that objecting physicians provide patients with contact information for non-objecting colleagues.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If the bill passes unamended, a physician  will be free to fully exercise freedom of conscience at 22 weeks plus  one day (when there  is no  requirement to provide contact  information), but not at 22 weeks minus one day (when the bill requires contact information to be supplied.)&nbsp; The inexact calculation of  gestational age contributes further to the arbitrariness of this  restriction of fundamental human freedom.  (See <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9276\">Abortion bill in New South Wales a global first<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for compulsory referral by objecting physicians among provisions deemed unacceptable Sean Murphy* Two Liberal Members of Parliament in New South Wales, Australia, have threatened to break with their party cross the floor to sit in opposition if the government does not make changes to a bill decriminalizing abortion (the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Protection of conscience an issue in backbench revolt on Australian abortion bill&#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":[46,30,9],"tags":[3698,2740,3697],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-australia","category-news","tag-kevin-conolly","tag-new-south-wales","tag-tanya-davies"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Protection of conscience an issue in backbench revolt on Australian abortion bill - 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