More will to Norway to get done fosterreduksjon – NRK

Fosterreduksjon, that is to say that one fresh fetus aborteres by tvillingsvangerskap, are not allowed to get carried out in Sweden and Denmark in the same way as in Norway.

In February opened the Health up for that Norwegian women are pregnant with healthy twins be able to abort away the one and only bear out the other.

A couple of months later came the first inquiries from the nordic women that wanted this. A woman was pregnant in the sixth week. But it was unclear whether St. Olav’s Hospital, which performs fosterreduksjon, also be able to do this on foreign women.

the Director Torunn Janbu in the ministry of Health.

Photo: Ellen Omland / NRK

Now is the guidelines sent out from the ministry of Health.

– All women, regardless of whether they are Norwegian or foreign women who reside in Norway, have the same right to abortion and fosterreduksjon. According to the lawyers required it is not fixed address, ” says the director Torunn Janbu by the department for hospital services in the ministry of Health.

It means that they can come here on holiday or just to obtain this?

According to the legal opinion is stay stay, but there must be a stay where you can also have a need for health care that cannot be postponed, and within it is abortion included, ” she says.

The nordic women who took the contact did not get this done for medical reasons. Foreign women themselves must pay for the procedure.

Seksjonsoverlege Torbjørn Eggebø by the National service of process for advanced fostermedisin confirms that they have received several inquiries with questions about the fosterreduksjon.

We answered that we would wait for guidelines from the authorities, ” he says.

When the ministry of Health opened for that Norwegian women are pregnant with healthy twins be able to abort away a fetus, was the academic community who perform this critical.

They saw no medical gevist to perform fosterreduksjon of a healthy twin. Today says Eggebø this:

– the Norwegian authorities have provided the opening for this to be possible, and that we relate to.