{"id":9598,"date":"2019-06-24T17:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2019-09-21T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:30:53","slug":"kilkenny-hospital-to-appoint-extra-obstetrician-to-facilitate-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9598","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny hospital to appoint extra obstetrician to facilitate abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move follows claim by four doctors that St Luke\u2019s was not \u2018an appropriate location\u2019 for the service <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The Irish Times<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Paul Cullen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        An additional obstetrician is to be appointed to St Luke\u2019s Hospital in Kilkenny as part of the rollout of abortion services to its maternity unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        The unit in Kilkenny is at the centre of controversy after the existing four obstetricians said it was not an \u201cappropriate location\u201d for the service introduced last January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         \u201cIn the event of professional and values training of staff willing to participate in such procedures, the hospital remains an unsuitable location for these services,\u201d the consultants said in a letter to Ireland East Hospital Group chief executive Mary Day last week. .  . . 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The unit in Kilkenny is at the centre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kilkenny hospital to appoint extra obstetrician to facilitate abortions&#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":[46,41,9],"tags":[3783,3468,3781],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ireland","category-news","tag-ray-osullivan","tag-simon-harris","tag-st-lukes-hospital-kilkenny-ireland"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Kilkenny hospital to appoint extra obstetrician to facilitate abortions - 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=9598\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kilkenny hospital to appoint extra obstetrician to facilitate abortions - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Move follows claim by four doctors that St Luke\u2019s was not \u2018an appropriate location\u2019 for the service The Irish Times Paul Cullen An additional obstetrician is to be appointed to St Luke\u2019s Hospital in Kilkenny as part of the rollout of abortion services to its maternity unit. 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