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Myre Sim<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Under the title of Medical Termination of Pregnancy, this Bill would expose to legal action a surgeon who refused to abort on sound clinical grounds, and therefore in good faith, yet his defence would be stronger if he claimed he refused to abort on grounds of conscience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sim M. (Correspondence) Abortion Bill<\/a>. Br Med J. 1967 May 20;2(5550):511. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myre Sim ExtractUnder the title of Medical Termination of Pregnancy, this Bill would expose to legal action a surgeon who refused to abort on sound clinical grounds, and therefore in good faith, yet his defence would be stronger if he claimed he refused to abort on grounds of conscience. Sim M. (Correspondence) Abortion Bill. 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