"Midwives Left With $500,000 Legal Bill After Court Forces Them to Assist in Abortions"

lifenews.com As LifeNews previously reported, in 2014 the British Supreme Court ruled that a pair of midwives who didn’t want to be involved in assisting abortions must do so. The senior midwives, Connie Wood and Mary Doogan, had more than 20 years of experience as Labor Ward Coordinators; but after the hospital reorganized their abortion “services,” transferring late abortion patients to the labor ward rather than the gynecology ward, they were asked to participate in abortions. The midwives and their attorney’s argued that the Abortion Act of 1967 states that no one with a conscientious objection can be obliged to participate in abortion procedures. Nevertheless, the hospital management insisted that a conscientious objection clause in the 1967 Abortion Act applied only to active participation in abortion and did not cover the women’s duties to delegate, supervise and support staff. After the decision, the midwives expressed their disappointment.