UK Parliament to debate conscientious objection
A website, the Free Conscience Campaign, launched to back bill Baroness O'Loan, former Police Ombudsman in Northern Ireland A Northern Ireland peer has introduced a...
Leading bioethics editors attack conscientious objection
The editors of two major bioethics journals calling for strict limits on “conscientious objection at the bedside”. The debate over conscientious objection is continuing, with...
Savulescu calls for ban on doctors’ conscientious objection
Does it lead to “bigoted, discriminatory medicine”? As politicians in the Australian state of Queensland debate controversial abortion laws, Oxford’s Julian Savulescu is calling for...
Ontario doctors squeezed on conscientious objection to assisted suicide
Protests over being forced to refer. The legalisation of physician-assisted suicide in Canada after February’s decision by the Supreme Court is starting to affect doctors....
Canadian bioethicist attacks conscientious objection
No doctor should have the right to conscientious objection, says Udo Schuklenk. The Canadian Medical Association is digging in its heels to protect doctors’ right...
What students think about conscientious objection
An revealing new study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics examines the attitudes of medical students towards conscientious objection. An revealing new study in the...