The missing voices in the conscientious objection debate: British service users’ experiences of conscientious objection to abortion [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 Background The fourth section of the 1967 Abortion Act states that individuals (including health care practitioners) do not have to participate in an abortion if they have a conscientious objection.
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Conscientious objection as structural violence in the voluntary termination of pregnancy in Chile [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 IntroductionAfter 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 or genetic lethal
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Perceptions and experiences of female nurses when confronted with expressing a conscientious objection towards end-of-life care in Greece [PDF]
BMC Nursing, 2023 Background Conscientious objection in nursing has been a topic of much discussion in recent years. Healthcare providers’ conscientious objection has been included in Greek legislation.
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Development, reliability, and validity of the nurses’ conscientious objection attitude scale (COAS-N) [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Conscientious objection poses ethical dilemmas frequently encountered by nurses, allowing them to prioritize personal beliefs in caregiving. However, it may also be viewed as a stance jeopardizing patients’ healthcare access.
Seyhan Demir Karabulut +3 more
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An ethical issue: nurses’ conscientious objection regarding induced abortion in South Korea [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background The Constitutional Court of South Korea declared that an abortion ban was unconstitutional on April 11, 2019. The National Health Care System will provide abortion care across the country as a formal medical service. Conscientious objection is
Chung Mee Ko, Chin Kang Koh, Ye Sol Lee
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Conscientious objection: a global health perspective [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthConscientious objection is a critical topic that has been sparsely discussed from a global health perspective, despite its special relevance to our inherently diverse field. In this Analysis paper, we argue that blanket prohibitions of a specific type of
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Conscientious objection and barriers to abortion within a specific regional context - an expert interview study [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground While most countries that allow abortion on women’s request also grant physicians a right to conscientious objection (CO), this has proven to constitute a potential barrier to abortion access.
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Understanding the extent of and limitations to conscientious objection to abortion by health care practitioners: A hermeneutic study. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe United Kingdom's Abortion Act 1967 has attracted substantial controversy, which has centred not only on the regulation of abortion itself, but also on the extent to which conscientious objection should be permitted.
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Dissenters and dissidents: Religious conscientious objectors under Yugoslav Military Criminal Law 1945-1991 [PDF]
Pravni Zapisi, 2023 The paper presents results of a research focusing on a four decades' struggle for legal recognition of the right to conscientious objection in Socialist Yugoslavia.
Božić Marko
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Causes for Conscientious Objection in Medical Aid in Dying: A Scoping Review
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023 In the light of current legislation on Medical Aid in Dying ─euthanasia and assisted suicide─ in different countries worldwide, there have been some arguments devoted to the right to conscientious objection for healthcare professionals in these specific
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