{"id":9705,"date":"2019-09-27T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2019-12-18T20:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T04:25:24","slug":"id-quit-my-job-if-i-had-to-assist-in-an-abortion-says-northern-ireland-midwife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9705","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d quit my job if I had to assist in an abortion, says Northern Ireland midwife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Ralph Hewitt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A midwife has said she would walk away from the profession if she was forced to either perform or assist an abortion after the liberalisation of the law in Northern Ireland next month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        She was speaking after a letter signed by 815 doctors, nurses and midwives was sent to Secretary of State Julian Smith and Richard Pengelly, the permanent secretary for the Department of Health, expressing opposition to any change of legislation here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         Carrickfergus GP Dr Andrew Cupples also warned of a mass exodus of healthcare professionals if they had to assist in a pregnancy termination. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/id-quit-my-job-if-i-had-to-assist-in-an-abortion-says-northern-ireland-midwife-38538565.html\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast Telegraph Ralph Hewitt A midwife has said she would walk away from the profession if she was forced to either perform or assist an abortion after the liberalisation of the law in Northern Ireland next month. She was speaking after a letter signed by 815 doctors, nurses and midwives was sent to Secretary of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;d quit my job if I had to assist in an abortion, says Northern Ireland midwife&#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":[46,9,3749,757],"tags":[3809,3810],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-news","category-northern-ireland","category-united-kingdom","tag-andrew-cupples","tag-debbie-marshall"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>I&#039;d quit my job if I had to assist in an abortion, says Northern Ireland midwife - 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=9705\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I&#039;d quit my job if I had to assist in an abortion, says Northern Ireland midwife - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Belfast Telegraph Ralph Hewitt A midwife has said she would walk away from the profession if she was forced to either perform or assist an abortion after the liberalisation of the law in Northern Ireland next month. 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