{"id":9689,"date":"2019-09-18T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9689"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:25:18","slug":"gender-surgery-abortion-doctors-nurses-say-theyll-quit-if-forced-to-violate-their-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9689","title":{"rendered":"Gender Surgery? Abortion? Doctors &#038; Nurses Say &#8216;They&#8217;ll Quit&#8217; if Forced to Violate Their Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CBN News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Paul Strand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n                            WASHINGTON &#8211; A trend in recent years is forcing medical professionals to participate in procedures they are opposed to for moral reasons. The most well-known of these procedures is abortion.&nbsp; Another one on the rise involves gender reassignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n                            Conscience protections are supposed to prevent doctors and nurses from being forced to take part in such procedures.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                             &#8220;Right of conscience is the freedom to practice health care in accordance with your deeply-held religious, moral or ethical convictions,&#8221; explained Dr. David Stevens, CEO emeritus of the Christian Medical &amp; Dental Associations (CMDA). . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2019\/september\/many-doctors-and-nurses-say-theyll-quit-if-compelled-to-do-medical-procedures-they-morally-oppose\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBN News Paul Strand WASHINGTON &#8211; A trend in recent years is forcing medical professionals to participate in procedures they are opposed to for moral reasons. The most well-known of these procedures is abortion.&nbsp; Another one on the rise involves gender reassignment. Conscience protections are supposed to prevent doctors and nurses from being forced to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gender Surgery? Abortion? Doctors &#038; Nurses Say &#8216;They&#8217;ll Quit&#8217; if Forced to Violate Their Beliefs&#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":[46,2413,9,295,28],"tags":[114],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-body-reconfiguration","category-news","category-religious-freedom","category-usa","tag-christian-medical-association-usa"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Gender Surgery? Abortion? 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