Publications by Others
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(2023) The Impact of ‘conscientious objection’ on abortion-related outcomes: A synthesis of legal and health evidence
by Fiona de Londras Amanda Cleeve, Maria I. Rodriguez, Alana Farrell, Magdalena Furgalska, Antonella F. Lavelanet Health Policy, Volume 129, March 2023, 104716 Note: The authors stop short of concluding that Belief-based Care Denial should not be allowed despite finding significant evidence that it is unworkable. Their recommendation to centre abortion seekers in the regulation of “conscientious objection” is not realistic without ending or largely […]
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(2022) Conscientious objection as structural violence in the voluntary termination of pregnancy in Chile
by Adela Montero, Mirliana Ramirez-Pereira, Paz Robledo, Lidia Casas, Lieta Vivaldi, Daniela Gonzalez Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13. November 2, 2022 Introduction: After three decades of the absolute prohibition of abortion, Chile enacted Law 21,030, which decriminalizes voluntary pregnancy termination when the person is at vital risk, when the embryo or fetus suffers from a congenital […]
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(2021) The highly complex issue of conscientious objection to abortion
Can the recent European Court of Human Rights ruling Grimmark v. Sweden redefine the notions of care before freedom of conscience? by Simona Zaami, Raffaella Rinaldi & Gianluca Montanari Vergallo The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, Volume 26, 2021 – Issue 4 Abstract Purpose: The article aims to elaborate on two recent European Court […]
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(2020) Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of Interest
Alberto Giubilini & Julian Savulescu Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol 17, pgs 229–243 (May 2020) Abstract Conflict of interests (COIs) in medicine are typically taken to be financial in nature: it is often assumed that a COI occurs when a healthcare practitioner’s financial interest conflicts with patients’ interests, public health interests, or professional obligations more […]
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(May 2020) The inequity of conscientious objection: Refusal of emergency contraception
Chelsey Yang, May 13, 2020, Nursing Ethics, 27:6; 1408-1417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733020918926 Abstract In the medical field, conscientious objection is claimed by providers and pharmacists in an attempt to forgo administering select forms of sexual and reproductive healthcare services because they state it goes against their moral integrity. Such claim of conscientious objection may include refusing to […]
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(2020) Implementing the liberalized abortion law in Kigali, Rwanda: Ambiguities of rights and responsibilities among health care providers
Jessica Påfs, Stephen Rulisa, Marie Klingberg-Allvin, Pauline Binder-Finnema, Aimable Musafili, Birgitta Essén et al January 2020 Midwifery, Vol 80, 102568 Partial Abstract Objective: Rwanda amended its abortions law in 2012 to allow for induced abortion under certain circumstances. We explore how Rwandan health care providers (HCP) understand the law and implement it in their clinical […]
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(Aug 2018) On the Revolutionary Road to Reproductive Justice
by Michelle Truong, International Women’s Health Coalition August 6, 2018 Dr. Willie Parker is an abortion provider because of, not despite, his Christian faith. At a moment when refusal of care due to conscience claims obstructs reproductive justice, emphasizing the role conscience plays in compassionate and ethical medical care, as Dr. Parker does, means a […]
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(July 2018) Religious Refusals and Reproductive Rights: Claims of Conscience as Discrimination and Shaming
By Louise Melling Chapter 14 – Religious Refusals and Reproductive Rights, from Part IV – Conscience, Accommodation and Its Harms. Edited by Susanna Mancini, Università di Bologna, Michel Rosenfeld. Publisher: Cambridge University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316780053.015 Relevant excerpt: The stories from Indiana and Arizona illustrate the different way in which we currently view refusals to serve […]
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(July 2018) Seeking to Square the Circle: A Sustainable Conscientious Objection in Reproductive Healthcare
Emmanuelle Bribosia and Isabelle Rorive Chapter 15 in: The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality, ed. Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018) pp. 392-413. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316780053.016 From Book Introduction: [In this chapter, the authors] focus on the practical and conceptual difficulties in reconciling the reproductive rights of […]
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(July 2018) IWHC Brief to Constitutional Court of Colombia: Abortion Restrictions are Ineffective and Harmful
New York City, United States, 18 July 2018 To: Señora Magistrada CRISTINA PARDO SCHLESINGER, Corte Constitucional, E.S.D. The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) submitted an amicus brief to the Constitutional Court of Colombia, urging the court to defend women’s rights and health by upholding the right to safe and legal abortion. In October 2018, the […]