=?utf-8?q?Yanıt: Re: May a gynecologist refuse to perf? =?utf-8?q?orm a voluntary termination of pregnancy?
From: =?utf-8?q?Dr. Bülent Potur?= (bpotur@yahoo.com)
Wed Jun 27 12:33:10 2007
Andrew,
I think the whole thread started in another list which
I am not a member. It seems that a head of a civilian
administration in a district or province, such as a
prefect or governor forced the gyns to perform
abortions in a state hospital. One of the gyns asked
the issue to the list of law of medicine. Several
professors replied as "If the gyn is a state employee
then he or she must do abortions on demand else he or
she must quit the job." I personally objected this
view and wrote several mails. I even got help from
French gynelist and wrote about the Simone Veil law to
the Turkish lists. But yesterday this professor wrote
and repeated her view in the Turkish internet
publication medimagazin. So discussion restarted.
The majority of Turkish obgyns perform termination of
pregnancy on request. But because this is an elective
procedure they prefer to do it in their private
offices. So it is somewhat expensive. The underlying
reason in this dispute is the unrespect of the basic
law of offer and demand. Nearly all of the hospitals,
social security system is owned and controlled by the
state. So instead of creating a demand, governments
easily apply some laws passed by the coup governments
and for example send the young doctors to an
additional forced state service and confiscate their
diplomas or certificate of specialization till the end
of this 2 year period. Even after many elections from
the coup, the coup laws are still applied. The law of
the legalization of abortion was also a law of the
latest coup government. At the persent time there is a
conservative government. So they probably won't insist
on state employees performing abortions in state
hospitals. But after the next months election if
things change personally I still do not expect acts
against basic human rights.
Regards.
Bulent Potur M.D. Obgyn.
--- Andrew Folley <agfolley@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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