Re: Whose Absolute Right to Life?


"Féachadóir" <Féach@d.óir> wrote in message
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Scríobh "Ex_OWM" <allthespamyoulike@xxxxxxxxx>:

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http://www.sarahcarey.ie/2003/08/05/michael-neary-and-butchering-women/

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Brendan Hodgers asked that a Caesarean section be performed on his
wife, so that she could return to her cancer treatment immediately.
The request was refused.

I wonder are we getting the full story there, seems a bit strange that the
husband requested the caesarian, I would have thought that the wife was the
one who should have requested it.

Anyway, leaving that issue aside, there's a basic issue here of doctors and
nurses having the right to refuse to take part in abortions on grounds of
conscience - I don't know the exact position in Ireland but that right is
written into Abortion Law in the UK.

I'd imagine it would have been hard to find staff in a Catholic hospital at
that time (early 80's) who would carry out the operation as it wasn't a case
of the child dyeing as an indirect result of medical treatment, it was a
case of effectively aborting the child to allow treatment to be carried out.
I also wonder whether it would even have been legal at that time.

BTW, the whole area of the rights of doctors and nurses to refuse to
participate in medical treatment on conscience grounds has become a major
controversy in the UK
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3010201.ece

Some radical Islamic student doctors in the UK are refusing to deal with
alcohol-related diseases or STD's or even examine patients of the opposite
sex though leading Islamic religious leaders have criticised them for it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article2603966.ece


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