{"id":11905,"date":"1968-04-20T11:15:00","date_gmt":"1968-04-20T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11905"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:45:55","slug":"correspondence-ethics-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11905","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) Ethics and Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dugald Baird<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"172\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bmj.jpg\" alt=\"British Medical Journal, BMJ\" class=\"wp-image-11229\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">British Medical Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>What the Act does is to make clear beyond doubt that termination of pregnancy is legal and that the decision to terminate or not should be left, as far as possible, to the clinical judgement of the doctors concerned, and that in reaching their decision doctors may take into account the effect of the patient&#8217;s total environment on her health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Baird D. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1989227\/pdf\/brmedj02080-0067a.pdf\">(Correspondence) Ethics and Abortion<\/a>. Br Med J. 1968;2(5598):173. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dugald Baird ExtractWhat the Act does is to make clear beyond doubt that termination of pregnancy is legal and that the decision to terminate or not should be left, as far as possible, to the clinical judgement of the doctors concerned, and that in reaching their decision doctors may take into account the effect of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Correspondence) Ethics and 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