Wed Apr 20, 2022 – 11:01 am EDT
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (LifeSiteNews) – A pro-life doctor in South Africa can now begin practicing medicine again, after having been suspended for five years for advising a woman against abortion.
Dr. Jacques De Vos received notice last week from the Health Professions Council of South Africa that the five-year suspension of his medical license is now lifted. De Vos had been prohibited from practicing medicine in 2017 as he neared the end of his medical training as an intern at 2 Military Hospital in Wynberg, South Africa, and was then charged with unprofessional conduct for an attempt to dissuade a patient from an abortion.
According to LifeNews, the accusation leveled against him by the Health Professions Council was that he had counseled a woman who was 19 weeks pregnant against an abortion, telling her that life begins at conception, her “fetus was a human being,” and abortion kills an unborn human. These charges were dropped in 2020, but the suspension of his medical license remained in effect until now.
During the hearing of the case prior to the withdrawal of charges, De Vos defended his statements on the human life
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