In the modern medical world, there is a rather ubiquitous concept known as “conscientious objection.”
Simply put, it’s the right that medical professionals have to deny legal healthcare actions on the grounds that it would violate their beliefs.
For example, if a Christian doctor simply cannot perform an abortion due to his sincerely held faith, he has every right to refuse the procedure.
It’s a widely recognized right throughout most of the modern world, including Spain.
But, despite the existence of conscientious objection, it appears Madrid is intent on making this privately held right to be as public as humanly possible.
According toThe Spain Post, a local court has ordered the regional government of Madrid to begin work on a long-delayed registry of healthcare professionals who refuse to participate in abortions on grounds of conscience.
The ruling came from the Eighth Administrative Litigation Section of the Madrid Superior Court of Justice, which sided with Spain’s Health Ministry.
Judges granted provisional measures requiring the regional government led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso to immediately start the administrative process needed to create and approve the registry.
The dispute stems from Article 19 of Spain’s national abortion law, which requires every autonomous community to maintain a list of medical professionals who object to directly participating in voluntary abortion procedures.
Madrid has been the only autonomous community that has not implemented the system. After repeated refusals by the regional government to comply with the national requirement, the Health Ministry brought the matter to court through an administrative legal challenge.
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