Following are news articles on the topic of “conscientious objection”.
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Uruguay – The Discussion on Conscientious Objection
by Nomtika All roads led to Uruguay last week, between July 31st and August 4th, as 5 SRJC members took to Montevideo for the International Convention on Conscientious Objection. The meeting, co-hosted by Mujer y Salud en Uruguay (MYSU) and the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), featured policymakers, academics, health professionals, legal experts, and feminist […]
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Sweden – The case of the anti-abortion Swedish midwives – again
by International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion On 17 March, 19 April and 31 May, we published three reports from Sweden on the cases of two midwives who sought to keep their jobs in spite of declaring conscientious objection to abortion, which is not recognised under Swedish law, and refusing to provide abortion […]
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Ghana: Provider obstruction: a major threat to critical maternal health services in Northern Ghana
Ghana Web, by Mathias Aboba A study has revealed that access to critical maternal health care service in the three regions of Northern Ghana; Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions is impeded with clinicians refusing to provide some legally prescribed services due to their moral or religious beliefs.The research known as the Conscientious Objection […]
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Sweden: Where conscientious objection to abortion is not recognised in law
International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion In Sweden, conscientious objection is not recognised in law. A Swedish midwife who refused to participate in abortions or prescribe contraceptives, which are part of the job description for midwives, was turned down for jobs in three clinics in the region of Joenkoeping in 2014.Her case was […]
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Norway: Doctor lost lawsuit after she denied patients UID
by Tor Ingar Oesterud The doctor, Katarzyna Jachimowicz, was fired after refuse to insert the birth control IUD (Intrauterine Device) for women. In the Norwegian GP regulations, from January 2015, states that doctors do not have a right to reserve them against consulting women about abortion or inserting UID. Read full article: norwaytoday.info – Feb 9, […]
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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 […]