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South Africa: Women and girls risk unsafe abortions after being denied legal services
Amnesty International Women and girls risk unsafe abortions that can lead to serious health complications, and even death, due to persistent barriers to legal abortion services, according to research by Amnesty International and the Women’s Health Research Unit of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town. The briefing […]
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Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception
by Julian Savulescu and Udo Schuklenk Abstract: In an article in this journal, Christopher Cowley argues that we have ‘misunderstood the special nature of medicine, and have misunderstood the motivations of the conscientious objectors’. We have not. It is Cowley who has misunderstood the role of personal values in the profession of medicine. We argue that […]
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Morning-after pill | Conscientious objectors or dishonourable disobedience?
Would it be lawful for pharmacists not to dispense an otherwise legal and licensed morning-after pill? Ultimately it should always be the state that must provide women with the emergency contraceptive 7 July 2016 by Jeanelle Mifsud Pharmacists could be free to abstain from selling the morning-after pill on grounds of religious conscience, but ultimately […]
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Conscientious Objection or Dishonorable Disobedience?
Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health Amy Levi 2015, American College of Nurse Midwives The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) clearly identifies the primacy of the needs of the woman in its position statement on reproductive health choices, in which it affirms that “every woman has the right to make reproductive health choices that meet […]