Emmanuel Sapin is professor of medicine, head of the pediatric and neonatal surgery department at Dijon University Hospital, at the initiative of a petition entitled “Calling all caregivers: let's defend our conscience clause”.
On November 29, MEPs will examine the bill which provides, in addition to extending the timeframe from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy, to remove the specific conscience clause for caregivers relating to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion).
Nearly three thousand caregivers, doctors, nurses, nurses, orderlies, orderlies and medical auxiliaries, ask the President of the Republic to intervene so that the specific conscience clause of all caregivers in the terms is preserved. of the legislation in force since the promulgation of the law in 1975.
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The conscience clause is the right to refuse the performance of a medical act, admittedly authorized by law, but that the doctor - or any other nursing staff - would consider
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