Directors quit Catholic hospital in ethics code row - The Guardian 7th December 2007

Friday, December 07, 2007

A Catholic hospital is in turmoil after two directors resigned, refusing to accept tighter ethical codes on abortions, contraception and sex-change operations. Dr Martin Scurr and Lord Fitzalan-Howard voted against implementing new guidelines at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in north London, according to the Catholic newspaper the Tablet, and resigned in protest when the board accepted the code issued earlier this year by Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, head of the Catholic church in England and Wales and patron of the 150-year-old medical institution.

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