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Re: May a gynaecologist refuse to perform a voluntary termination of pregnancyFrom: Raymond Stephen (stephen.raymond@dhhs.tas.gov.au)Wed Jun 27 19:16:22 2007
In the four countries that I have worked in it has always been written into the contracts or conditions of employment that a gynaecologist may opt out of terminations of pregnancy on the grounds of conscience. If there is such a situation that there is no-one locally who will do them, then usually the local doctors sort out their routes of referral to another place. If there is no such provision for conscientious objection in your contract with the state then it is obviously crisis time and the college or union and the state need to thrash this out so that all factors are covered. Unless you have a communist system there should never be anyone forced to do something which is really objectionable to them. Steve -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Dr. Bülent Potur Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2007 1:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: May a gynecologist refuse to perform a voluntary termination of pregnancy 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:
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