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It’s emerged that Muslim doctors working in Ireland will not be performing abortions as-per legislation passed in the Dail recently.
According to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Kilkenny-based consultant obstetrician Trevor Hayes, claims that there is going to be a major stumbling block that the Government appears to not have considered.
The stumbling block Dr Hayes is referring to is that of religious convictions of hospital doctors around the country, and in particular the convictions of Muslim doctors who practice around the country.
A large number of Ireland’s non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) are Muslim people, Dr Hayes says, and they would have very serious religious positions opposing performing abortions.
Dr Hayes told The Irish Catholic:
“A lot of the NCHDs, a lot of the registrars and senior registrars and SHOs (senior house officers) – so the front line – would be from Egypt, Sudan, and generally Muslim countries,”
“These would be in the country hospitals, and because of that they have frontline exposure, and they would have religious objections to being involved in the abortion service.”
It’s not just his opinion, either. It’s understood that Dr Hayes has been told this directly from Muslim doctors who will not be performing abortions:
“It’s one of the reasons why Cavan was one of the first hospitals to say that they wouldn’t be providing the service, because the consultants – all the consultants there are Muslim,” he continues. “I’m not professing that I have huge knowledge about Islam, but they have religious objections to being involved in it.”
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