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(Of Mauro Faverzani) The Norwegian Supreme Court, last 11 October, recognized the right of doctors not to carry out health treatments, that may go against their conscience. As required by the European Convention on Human Rights.
This was the case of Dr. Katarzyna Jachinowicz, Polish, family doctor in the Municipality of Sauherad: convinced that «life begins at the moment of conception», she said she was determined not to "participate in its destruction», administering therapies, that can cause abortion. Like intrauterine devices. Because of this, in December 2015, she had been fired, although unanimously recognized as a highly qualified professional, with over twenty years of experience.
Now the Supreme Court verdict has brought her justice and returned what she had been unduly deprived of, confirming a previous verdict, favorable to her, already issued some time ago by a lower court, verdict contested by the health authorities, who intended to bring the matter back to the courts and get to the bottom of it.
Norway has a chronic shortage of doctors, especially outside urban centers. For this reason it also uses highly qualified immigrant personnel. But work is not as good as one's conscience and no one has the right to confront a professional with either/or, that sound authentic, inhuman blackmail: or your salary or your beliefs.
Unfortunately, but, was noted as doctors, throughout Europe, are increasingly subjected to grim threats and poisonous pressure, so that they also do what they morally and ethically consider wrong. Also note that Dr. Jachimowicz comes from a country, in Poland, where exactly three years ago the Constitutional Court issued a sentence, which extended the right to conscientious objection for doctors, thus putting an end to a long dispute with the National Council of Doctors.
The only case, in which the Court has defined it as legitimate to ask a doctor to violate one's conscience is when the woman is in danger of dying or her health is seriously threatened. In all other cases, even urgent, it is unconstitutional to force a healthcare professional to go against his own principles and also to force him to refer the patient to a non-objecting doctor, that he can comply with his abortive requests.
L'avvocato Håkon Bleken, defender of Dr. Jachimowicz, stated that the Supreme Court's decision represents «a step in the right direction» to protect people of faith, in any professional field: «The ruling recognizes one of the fundamental rights, that of acting according to the most deeply rooted beliefs».
Nevertheless, on this same front, today there are new alarming cases, for example in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Why? It's easy to say. In Ireland, the Minister of Health, Simon Harris, he warned: does not intend to accept that doctors «show the exit door» to women requesting information on abortion.
That is, although the National Association of Family Doctors believes it is better to avoid the healthcare professional being forced to entrust his patient to another specialist who is accommodating on this point. As for the UK, the next one 23 a proposal will be voted on in October, aimed at abolishing the articles 58 e 59 from the "Crimes against persons law" of the 1861, articles that penalize those who facilitate the means to facilitate abortion. According to experts, a possible favorable vote could leave those who cite conscientious reasons for not having an abortion without any protection.
In short, the war between pro-choice e pro-life it is more open and lit than ever. Which makes the ruling of the Norwegian Supreme Court even more important, because it is jurisprudence and represents a victory. By Dr. Jachimowicz, right. But above all about life.