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Monday March 29, 1999


UK MD ON TRIAL FOR REFUSING TO REFER FOR ABORTION

NORTHAMPTIONSHIRE, UK, Mar 29 (LSN) – Dr Sheila Matthews, a Christian doctor in England who has expressed her repugnance for abortion is being sued by one of her patients for failing to suggest abortion as an option. Michele Johnston gave birth in April 1989 to a child with cerebral palsy and is charging that she was not given the option to abort when she went to the doctors at 14-and-a-half weeks pregnant.

For more see the BBC report at:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_302000/302932…


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