{"id":13743,"date":"1983-01-01T20:48:00","date_gmt":"1983-01-02T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:21:30","slug":"cma-reviews-its-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13743","title":{"rendered":"CMA reviews its position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Normand Da Sylva<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cmaj.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ\" class=\"wp-image-11269\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>Throughout the 1 970s and early 1 980s the issue of abortion was causing such concern that, at its 1981 meeting in Halifax, General Council directed the association &#8220;to review the situation with respect to therapeutic abortions in Canada&#8221;.  As part of this review, the Board of Directors decided to go to the grassroots or the association and to ask individual physicians what their opinions were, not only on the procedural aspects of the current legislation, but also on the ethical and moral aspects of terminating a pregnancy. . . . With the help of an outside consultant, we then drew the names of 2000 physicians from the associations membership file to get a statistically valid sample, proportionally representative of our membership by province and by specialty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Sylva ND. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1874691\/pdf\/canmedaj01382-0049.pdf\">CMA reviews its position<\/a>. Can Med Assoc J. 1983;128(1):57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normand Da Sylva ExtractThroughout the 1 970s and early 1 980s the issue of abortion was causing such concern that, at its 1981 meeting in Halifax, General Council directed the association &#8220;to review the situation with respect to therapeutic abortions in Canada&#8221;. 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