Publications by Others
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(July 2018) Provider Conscientious Refusal, Medical Malpractice, and the Right to Civil Recourse
Nelson (2018) argues that where death results from conscientious refusal to provide abortion services in an obstetrical emergency, clinicians and institutions should be held criminally liable for homicide. I wholeheartedly endorse Nelson’s position and add the following additional observations: (1) Clinicians and institutions that decline to provide reproductive health care in accordance with generally accepted […]
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(July 2018) Enforcing Conscientious Objection to Abortion in Medical Emergency Circumstances: Criminal and Unethical
by Udo Schuklenk & Benjamin Zolf American Journal of Bioethics, 18:7, 60-61 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2018.1478036 Lawrence Nelson discusses cases in which abortion is necessary due to a life-threatening medical emergency. He argues that under American law, health care pro- viders who conscientiously refuse to perform one in such circumstances are guilty of murder or reckless homicide, […]
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(July 2018) Being a Doctor and Being a Hospital
Rosamond Rhodes & Michael Danziger The American Journal of Bioethics, 18:7, 51-53 Doi: 10.1080/15265161.2018.1478021 In his excellent piece, “Provider Conscientious Refusal of Abortion, Obstetrical Emergencies, and Criminal Homicide Law,” Lawrence Nelson makes a compelling legal argument against physicians’ refusal to provide life-saving abortions (Nelson 2018). We want to make the equivalent moral argument. Nelson says […]
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(July 2018) No conscientious objection without normative justification: Against conscientious objection in medicine
by Benjamin Zolf, Bioethics. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12521 Abstract Most proponents of conscientious objection accommodation in medicine acknowledge that not all conscientious beliefs can justify refusing service to a patient. Accordingly, they admit that constraints must be placed on the practice of conscientious objection. I argue that one such constraint must be an assessment of the […]
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(June 2018) Unconscionable: When Providers Deny Abortion Care
by International Women’s Health Coalition and Mujer y Salud en Uruguay (Dr. Christian Fiala is a contributor) June 2018 The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) and Mujer y Salud en Uruguay (MYSU) co-organized a global Convening on Conscientious Objection: Strategies to Counter the Effects, in August 2017. The meeting was designed to analyze and address […]
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(Jun 2018) Conscientious objection in medicine: accommodation versus professionalism and the public good
by Udo Schuklenk Br Med Bull. 2018 Jun 1;126(1):47-56. Doi: 10.1093/bmb/ldy007 Abstract In recent years questions have arisen about the moral justification for the accommodation of health care professionals who refuse, on conscience grounds as opposed to professional grounds, to provide particular professional services to eligible patients who request that kind of service. Central to […]
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(June 2018) No GP should be allowed opt out of abortions
by Newton Emerson Thu, Jun 14, 2018 The UK supreme court sat for the first time in Belfast last month, hearing an appeal into the “gay cake” case, among others. “People will of course not expect an answer any time soon,” the president of the court said upon reserving judgment. Another thing nobody expects is […]
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(June 2018) Conscientious objection: a morally insupportable misuse of authority
Arianne Shahvisi June 1, 2018 Volume: 13 issue: 2, page(s): 82-87 https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750917749945 Abstract In this paper, I argue that the conscience clause around abortion provision in England, Scotland and Wales is inadequate for two reasons. First, the patient and doctor are differently situated with respect to social power. Doctors occupy a position of significant moral […]
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(May 2018) Public cartels, private conscience
Michael Cholbi May 30, 2018 Sage Journals https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X18779146 Abstract Many contributors to debates about professional conscience assume a basic, pre-professional right of conscientious refusal and proceed to address how to ‘balance’ this right against other goods. Here I argue that opponents of a right of conscientious refusal concede too much in assuming such a right, […]
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(Jan 2018) A twist on conscientious objection: a regulatory proposal based on the practice of legal abortion in Argentina
Translated from Spanish: “Una vuelta de tuerca a la objeción de conciencia: Una propuesta regulatoria a partir de las prácticas del aborto legal en Argentina” by Agustina Ramón Michel and Sonia Ariza, on behalf of CEDES and Ipas January 2018 Note: The authors do support allowing “CO” – however, they propose strict regulation of it, […]