{"id":12436,"date":"1976-07-24T19:06:00","date_gmt":"1976-07-25T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:29:12","slug":"correspondence-a-question-of-conscience-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12436","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) A question of conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Herbert H Pilling<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Extract<\/strong>
Some of your correspondents on this subject seem to be ignoring the fact that the NHS Acts and Regulations impose upon all doctors employed in the Health Service a duty to make available to their patients any treatment which their condition may warrant, and in certain cases one such treatment is the termination of pregnancy. These cases are defined in the Abortion Act 1967<\/em> and the clear implication of section 1 (1) of that Act, taken in conjunction with the general duty outlined above, is that a doctor must consider whether any patient requesting a termination of pregnancy falls within the criteria set out in the Act<\/em>, and if so he must make the appropriate treatment available to her. He need not, however, participate in the treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pilling HH. (Correspondence) A question of conscience.<\/a> Br Med J. 1976;2(6029):234-235. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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