{"id":13554,"date":"1967-12-16T18:46:00","date_gmt":"1967-12-17T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13554"},"modified":"2024-11-23T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T03:13:10","slug":"correspondence-abortion-and-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13554","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) Abortion and Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Myre Sim<\/h4>\n\n\n
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That the W.H.O. includes such a phrase [“well-being”] in their definition of mental health does not give it legal validity. Neither does it give it medical sanction, for W.H.O. definitions are notoriously unstable and liable to change, as is evidenced by those on alcoholism and drug addiction. There is no agreement on a definition of ” mental health ” in spite of national associations, institutes, and research funds devoted to its cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sim M. (Correspondence) Abortion and Conscience<\/a>. Br Med J. 1967 Dec 16;4(5580):684. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myre Sim ExtractThat the W.H.O. includes such a phrase [“well-being”] in their definition of mental health does not give it legal validity. Neither does it give it medical sanction, for W.H.O. definitions are notoriously unstable and liable to change, as is evidenced by those on alcoholism and drug addiction. There is no agreement on a … Continue reading “(Correspondence) Abortion and Conscience”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,554,882,559,634],"tags":[1507],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-journals-correspondence","category-law","category-psychiatry-psychology","tag-myre-sim"],"yoast_head":"\r\n(Correspondence) Abortion and Conscience - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The WHO includes the term "well-being" in defining mental health, but this does not make it valid. 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