Posted on 03/21/2019 5:47:29 PM PDT by marshmallow
LEICESTER, United Kingdom - Ireland’s bishops have called the requirement that applicants to new posts at Dublins’s National Maternity Hospital be willing to carry out elective abortions, a violation of a doctor’s “constitutional and human right to freedom of conscience.”
The recent advertisement for consultants in obstetrics/gynecology and anesthesia at the hospital said they must be willing to carry out abortions to be considered for the positions.
“A doctor who is eminently qualified to work as a consultant in these fields is denied employment in these roles because of his/her conscience,” the bishops said in a March 13 statement.
“Doctors who are pro-life and who may have spent over a decade training in these areas and who may otherwise be the best candidate for these positions are now advised that, should they apply, they would not be eligible for consideration. This totally undermines the whole concept of freedom of conscience which was guaranteed in the recent legislation,” the statement continued.
“The consequence for the entire training and recruitment of doctors to work in these positions in hospitals in Ireland is greatly undermined by these advertisements,” the bishops said.
Abortion became legal in Ireland at the beginning of the year, after the country voted to end constitutional protections for the unborn in a referendum last year.
The Irish government has said that it will protect the conscience rights of doctors when it comes to abortion, but that all hospitals that receive any public funding - including Catholic hospitals - will have to allow abortions to be performed on their premises.
A hospital spokesman denied the recent advertisements were undermining conscientious objection guidelines.
He told the Irish Independent that the new posts were being funded for “the very specific purpose of providing termination of pregnancy services.”
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Just say no.
Close the hospitals (which is what the Catholic hospitals in MA said they would do) and offer the state the option of dumping the patients in state hospitals (which likely can’t contain them).
If I were a doctor and had a private practice I think I would offer home births.
My mother-in-law had seven at home———back in the 30s.
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There are still Bishops in Ireland? The state of Catholicism there must be close to as rotten as it is in the Vatican. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be in such a mess.
Irish society, it seems to me, has gone completely haywire.
Those Irish doctors could get together and figure out emergency procedures where they would not have to depend on the maternity hospital.
They ought to attack this on the grounds it constitutes
INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE.
Second it violates their human rights to live by their consciences. If any individual did this to another it would be viewed as immoral, coercive, abusve, and pyschological and mental violence. Makes no difference if the state does it tothe individual.
And also that these laws are selective against a minority of people, as in they do not apply across all people and all jobs.
Also that this is after-the-fact fundamental changes to the job criteria, these people studied and entered into these jobs when laws protected their ability to do their work with their consciences intact, you cannot change the game,on these people who entered these carers with good faith the laws would allow the not to violate their personal beliefs.
If you cant exercise your personal beliefs and not do something because the state says so, you are not a free person. This law means to work and make a living for yourself, you cant be a free person with free will or follow your conscience.
Cardinal Sean Brady (head of the Irish Catholic bishops’ conference) stated that the Irish bishops have not considered barring pro-abortion politicians from receiving Communion.
An underground railroad for pro-life obstetricians and midwives seems to be in order.
My mother in law WAS from Ireland but had her kids here.
She would go see the doctor when she about about 7 months pregnant——one more visit,maybe,and then he would be called to the house for the delivery.
The old days.
My own mother had hers in the hospital and stayed for TWO weeks,now it’s 2 days.
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Ireland is sick. Sad sad state of affairs. Socialism destroys everything, including freedom.
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