Submitted by Graham
From The Sydney Morning Herald
Catholic hospital bars contraception advice
By Julie Robotham
June 6, 2011
"It puts me in an invidious position" ... Dr Michael Seldon, a practising
Catholic who works at Newcastle's Calvary Mater Hospital. Photo: Anita Jones
CANCER doctors are on a collision course with a Catholic health organisation over new religion-based rules which prohibit them recommending contraception to patients taking a drug derived from thalidomide, which can cause severe birth defects.
Under a clampdown at Newcastle's Calvary Mater Hospital, doctors recruiting patients into clinical trials may no longer distribute information about contraception. Instead they are allowed to offer a ''statement of reproductive risks'', which advises participants to avoid pregnancy but gives no information on how to achieve this.
Under a clampdown at Newcastle's Calvary Mater Hospital, doctors recruiting patients into clinical trials may no longer distribute information about contraception. Instead they are allowed to offer a ''statement of reproductive risks'', which advises participants to avoid pregnancy but gives no information on how to achieve this.
Full story: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/catholic-hospital-bars-contraception-advice-20110605-1fnj3.html
