The next challenge for conscientious objectors
Hi there, During an election fought over the Obama administration’s health care law, the nature and limits of conscientious objection are lively topics. Not being...
Oxford ethicist attacks conscientious objection
Conscientious objection is guaranteed to give anyone who went to university in the 60s and 70s the warm fuzzies. It was the Everest of moral...
No easy answer to conscientious refusal to refer, says ethicist
Doctors who are unwilling either to supply a legal service or refer to a willing doctor should be disciplined or get out of medicine altogether,...
Novel defences for conscientious objection
Surprisingly, in the Journal of Medical Ethics Should doctors employed by a government hospital be allowed to make a conscientious objection to abortion? A British...
NEJM opposes conscientious objection for doctors
We need more selfless professionalism The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine opposes conscientious objection to abortion and contraception in the US. In a stinging...
Is matching conscientious objectors with like-minded patients a solution?
New book attempts to create scheme for keeping patients and doctors happy With conscientious objection and "conscience clauses" becoming more prominent in bioethical debates, especially...
US bioethics council grills experts on conscientious objection
Balancing autonomy against conscience With conscientious objection emerging as a surprise bioethical headline over the past month, it turns out that the President's Council on...
Conscientious objection safe in Ontario
Conscientious objection safe in Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons retreats from earlier position The regulatory body for doctors in the Canadian province of Ontario...
Conscientious objection to abortion questioned in Australia
Victorian Parliament considering decriminalisation billThe right to conscientious objection to abortion is under threat in the Australian state of Victoria. The lower house of the...
California case threatens doctors’ conscientious objection
Lesbian claims discrimination in fertility treatmentThe California Supreme Court is having a busy time with social and bioethics issues lately. After deciding that same sex...
Government too lax on conscientious objectors, complains BMA
The British Medical Association and the UK body which disciplines doctors have clashed over conscientious objection. The General Medical Council is drafting new guidelines on...
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN AMERICAN MEDICINE
Nearly 100 million Americans are at risk of being denied "legal medical interventions" by religious doctors, according to a feature article in the New England...