Re: May a gynecologist refuse to perform a voluntary termination of pregnancy
From: Andrew Folley (agfolley@hotmail.com)
Wed Jun 27 11:42:47 2007
Bulent
It is time for the men and women Ob-Gyns in Turkey to take a stand. The
Turkish law does not mandate obgyns to have to do abortions. Tell the young
turks to stick their suction curette.
agf
>From: "Dr. Bülent Potur" <bpotur@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: May a gynecologist refuse to perform a voluntary termination
>of pregnancy Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:33:02 -0500
>
>Dear Doctor Joe,
>Abortion was forbidden in Turkey till 1983. The law of
>1983 allowed the voluntary termination of pregnancy
>till the 10th week of pregnancy. The law and the rules
>and regulations of the law state that evacuation of
>the uterus is done in the hospital and in the offices
>of gynecologists. General practitioners may perform
>menstrual regulations in the hospital under the
>supervision of Obgyn's. So the law only allows and
>depicts the conditions necessary for uterine
>evacuation. In nowhere in the law is there the words
>"gynecologists are obliged to evacuate the uteri of
>applicant gravid women." But for the last month in the
>Turkish gynecologists list there has been a group of
>gynecologists who claim that the gynecologists who do
>not perform uterine evacuations on demand should
>resign or should be dismissed from working as state
>employees.
>The reason why I brought this thread to this list is a
>discussion of yesterday. A gynecologist wrote that she
>has been working in the United States for a long time.
>Although a conscientious objection against abortion
>respected in the US, the physician who does not
>perform the abortion must refer the patient to a
>center of abortion or a colleague who performs
>abortions without delay. But if there is nobody or no
>institution around which performs the operation and
>the patient is neither transferred to another place
>then the state employee gynecologist physician has to
>perform the abortion even if it is totally against his
>conscience, religion or similar.
>Is this really the case in the US or any state of the
>US? I would really appreciate some comments,
>experiences or references.
>Thanks a lot.
>
>Bulent Potur M.D. Obgyn.
>Kirikkale TURKEY
>
>--- DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > In a message dated 6/27/2007 3:58:56 A.M. Central
> > Daylight Time,
> > bpotur@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > Can a
> > gynecologist working only for the state, a civil
> > servant gynecologist, refuse to perform a voluntary
> > termination of pregnancy?
> >
> > I would think that this question ultimately depends
> > upon the laws and
> > constitution of the country where you live. In the
> > U.S. you cannot make someone do
> > something that is religiously objectionable to them.
> > The State cannot
> > interfere in religious matters. I don't know how the
> > laws are written in Turkey.
> >
> > Joe P.
> >
>
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