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Re: May a gynecologist refuse to perform a voluntary termination of pregnancyFrom: =?utf-8?q?Dr. Bülent Potur?= (bpotur@yahoo.com)Wed Jun 27 10:31:59 2007
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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