J David Bleich
Extract
Patient autonomy certainly deserves both moral respect and legal protection, but to demand of a physician that she act in a manner she deems to be morally unpalatable not only compromises the physician’s ethical integrity, but is also likely to have a corrosive effect upon the dedication and zeal with which she ministers to patients.
Bleich JD. The Physician as a Conscientious Objector. Fordham Urban Law J. 2002;30(1): 245-265 .