{"id":9417,"date":"2019-07-15T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9417"},"modified":"2020-07-31T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T03:37:42","slug":"irish-obstetrician-defies-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9417","title":{"rendered":"Irish obstetrician defies health minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;I will not be forced and bullied by politicians or by the media into performing or facilitating abortions&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jHJmVYAS06U\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hayes-trevor-1.jpg\" alt=\"Irish obstetrician defies health minister\" class=\"wp-image-10147\" width=\"176\" height=\"180\"\/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jHJmVYAS06U\">Click to see the video<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the All-Ireland Rally for Life, Dr. Trevor Hayes, an obstetrician at St. Luke&#8217;s Hospital in Kilkenny, said that he and three consultant colleagues at the hospital advised the HSE (Irish Health Services) that they would not peform abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A great number of my colleagues are unwilling to perform surgical abortions,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and they say they will not be forced to carry out this life ending procedure&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>         [The politicians] want to force doctors like me to do so, and that&#8217;s not going to happen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>         Would the GPs who are attacking pro-life obstetricians on Twitter perform a late-term surgical abortion? Again, I suspect most of them would not. So why are they trying to force other people to be involved in something so repugnant to those of us who adhere to the first principle of medicine, which is &#8220;do no harm&#8221;? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>         Shame on them for failing to respect conscientious rights of their colleagues in medicine.&nbsp; But we won&#8217;t be bullied by them either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will not be forced and bullied by politicians or by the media into performing or facilitating abortions&#8221; Sean Murphy* Speaking at the All-Ireland Rally for Life, Dr. Trevor Hayes, an obstetrician at St. Luke&#8217;s Hospital in Kilkenny, said that he and three consultant colleagues at the hospital advised the HSE (Irish Health Services) that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irish obstetrician defies health minister&#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":[46,5,41,9,29],"tags":[3609],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-ireland","category-news","category-videos","tag-trevor-hayes"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Irish obstetrician defies health minister - 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