Victorian MP calls out hospital act

News.com.au - 21/04
A politician has called out hospital staff who refuse medical treatment based on their religious beliefs.

A politician has called out hospital staff who refuse medical treatment based on their religious beliefs.

Georgie Purcell, a Victorian MP from the Animal Justice Party, recently opened up in parliament about the fact she needed her copper IUD, a birth control implant, removed.

It had lodged itself in her uterus wall, and had created a risk of perforating it.

“In order for it to proceed, I had to have the procedure at a non-religious hospital,” she said.

“All over Victoria, there are hospitals ...
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