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Denise (2016) – Northern Ireland
Denise Phelan was denied a legal abortion in circumstances so extreme she still finds it harrowing to speak about it. “My anger wakes me up at night. It’s a deep, almost in-the-bone anger,” she says. She and her husband, Richard Gosnold, are also still grieving for the loss of their baby, Alenja. Their trauma has […]
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Chelsea (2018) – USA
Woman with serious health risks and lethal fetal abnormality denied abortion at hospital because she wasn’t sick enough In December 2018, Chelsea was about 15 weeks into a planned pregnancy when a specialist at University of Cincinnati Medical Center told her that her fetus had triploidy, a condition where three sets of chromosomes develop in […]
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(July 2017) There Is No Defense for ‘Conscientious Objection’ in Reproductive Health Care
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology By Christian Fiala and Joyce H. ArthurPublished online 23 July 2017 Abstract: A widespread assumption has taken hold in the field of medicine that we must allow health care professionals the right to refuse treatment under the guise of ‘conscientious objection’ (CO), in particular for women […]
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Valentina Milluzzo † (2016) – Italy
In October 2016, Valentina Milluzzo of Italy, 32, was miscarrying much-wanted twins at 19 weeks of pregnancy. But she died in the Cannizzaro Hospital in Catania Sicily after being denied an abortion, despite no hope for survival of her twins. She became septic and suffered hours of agony while sepsis destroyed her organs. A doctor […]