Catholic doctors who follow church teaching advised to emigrate (UK says: Catholics get out)

The Tablet (UK) ^ | 27 May 2014 | Elena Curti

[Mrs. Don-o]

Catholic doctors who follow church teaching on sexual ethics cannot work as gynaecologists in Britain, the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) conference was told.

Charlie O’Donnell, a consultant in emergency and intensive care medicine, said the best advice he could give to an “orthodox” Catholic wishing to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology would be to “emigrate”.

Dr O’Donnell told the conference at Ealing Abbey, west London, on 17 May that a Catholic training to be a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology would soon find he or she had conscientious objections to such tasks as prescribing artificial contraceptives, giving unmarried couples fertility treatment or Viagra to gay couples.

He said that supervising consultants do not have the backup to allow trainees to opt out if they have moral objections to such work. However, conscientious objection to abortion is allowed because of specific provision in the 1967 Abortion Act.

“To be a sound Catholic regarding sexual ethics it is not possible to train as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist but this is not because of discrimination against Catholics. There is a total conflict of culture of what is good sex, a dichotomy of belief between what we as Christians believe is good overall for the individual and what secular society believes,” said Dr O’Donnell.

Last week the president of the CMA, Dr Robert Hardie sought clarification concerning reports that doctors and nurses with conscientious objections would be barred from obtaining a diploma from the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FSRH). Medical staff normally need the diploma to work in sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Jim McManus, the Vice Chairman of the Healthcare Reference Group for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said that any move that would result in Catholics being excluded from practising as gynaecologists would be unlawful.

“It would be a clear breach of the Equality Act [2010] for Catholics to be excluded from being able to practise,” he said. “The advice that I have had from a senior barrister is that it would be unlawful, and would leave any employer seeking to implement that open to legal challenge.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

The Catholic Church is the only church in Britain which insists that the purpose of gynecology is to heal, cure, restore and support normal physiological function in females.

Catholic doctors won't kill babies, scramble people's sex organs, implant embryos in lesbians, or shoot you with endocrine disruptors to make you sterile.

Therefore Catholic OB/Gyns are being told they should emigrate: the UK government doesn't want them practicing medicine in Britain.

NHS=Obamacare tomorrow.

[ConservativeDude]

Don’t worry....I’m sure the European Commission on Human Rights will take up this case....

[Westbrook]

Brilliant!

In a country already wracked with Doctor shortages and health care debacles, they want to chase more doctors out of the country.

The average Britisher will have to be content with “Dr.” Mohammed with his rusty kitchen knife and leeches.

[ZULU]

I’m not CATHOLIC, but abortion is murder. The primary function of sex is to reproduce and to reinforce the parental pair bond. Every child born into the world has a HUMAN RIGHT to be raised by a loving father and a loving mother.

Abortion and birth control leads to a denial of this.

Western civilization was based on the fundamentals of Christianity and any society in the west which abandons those fundamentals faces collapse and abandonment of a human rights based government.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well said, ZULU. Even in my early days, almost everybody accepted this as self-evident. Not if you say obviously true things about the structure and purpose of sex, male and female, death and life, right and wrong, people look at you like you came from some other planet.

So thanks for your uncommon common sense.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Typo. Not=Now

[buffyt]

Everyone who is pro-abortion has already been born! I look at my daughter who is 6 mo pg with our first grandchild and it breaks my heart to think that ANYONE would EVER want to abort a Child of God!

[Don Corleone]

Only MURDERERS need apply as doctors in UK.

[doc maverick]

Muslim doctors are dangerous.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1556802/The-people-who-cure-you-will-kill-you.html

[Secret Agent Man]

yet muslims will be able to work there, murdering kaffir babies.

[Arthur McGowan]

Well, these Catholics would be welcome in New York...scratch that.