BY Ian Dunn | December 15 | 
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Midwives’ ruling due on Wednesday
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the conscientious objection to abortion case of the two Glasgow Catholic midwives on Wednesday, after the SCO goes to press this week.
The healthcare professionals want the court to defend their right to work without being involved in abortions.
Scottish Catholics will be gathering for a Holy Hour of prayer in St Bridget’s Ballieston, at 7pm tomorrow, the night before for the two midwives in the hope their freedom of conscience is protected.
Mary Doogan and Connie Wood are senior midwives who between them have helped to deliver around 10,000 babies over the past 25 years. They have been in dispute with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for several years. The health board has gone to the Supreme Court to appeal against a decision of the Court of Session in Edinburgh last year to uphold the midwives right to conscientiously object to be involved in any way in the abortion process, including their right not to supervise other staff involved.
At stake in this case is the scope of the right to conscientious objection under the Abortion Act 1967, which provides that ‘no person shall be under any duty… to participate in any treatment authorised by this Act to which he has a conscientious objection.’
Pic: Paul McSherry
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