Hospitals in New Zealand are having trouble finding nurses willing to help with late-term abortions.
One person in the article commented:
“[It is] an issue of nurses expressing an unwillingness to continue contributing to this particular service. It’s not an area of practice where many staff choose or are comfortable to work.”
Abortion Law Reform Association president Margaret Sparrow said staffing abortion services generally did not pose problems, although those for the second trimester were more difficult.
“A lot of those nurses are quite happy to be involved in early abortions but with the increasing gestation they do find it difficult.”
Dr Sparrow said this was because of the greater development of the fetus, “rather than having a complete moral objection to abortion”.
The board’s National Women’s Health Service, Kay Hyman, said the second trimester surgical abortion service was at “critical” risk.
Martin Johnston “More nurses opting out of abortion ops” NZ Herald Wednesday Feb 4, 2009
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