KrF deputy believes abortion doctors act as “clerks” – Dagbladet.no

“We consider that it would be advantageous if the seeking abortion receive a reflection time before she performs the abortion. A mandatory reflection time must of course be practiced so that it does not conflict with the deadlines in abortion law. That reflection time must yield in cases where there is no room for it, “writes Eriksen, who has chaired the committee.

She believes that the Norwegian abortion and the practice of it is not functioning satisfactorily and points out that both Germany, the Netherlands and Finland has a binding advice and / or mandatory reflection time incorporated in its recent abortion legislation.

According to Eriksen has

many received inadequate information and writes the doctor more or less works as “salesman”.

“reflection time is not a means to get the woman to change her mind or alter the decision she may have taken, but to ensure her time to think through the information she has received, “she writes on.

(NTB)