{"id":12801,"date":"2009-04-09T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12801"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:41:46","slug":"conscientious-objection-gone-awry-restoring-selfless-professionalism-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12801","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious Objection Gone Awry-Restoring Selfless Professionalism in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Julie D Cantor<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nejm.jpg\" alt=\"New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM\" class=\"wp-image-11214\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>Health care providers already enjoy broad rights \u2014 perhaps too broad \u2014 to follow their guiding moral or religious tenets when it comes to sterilization and abortion. An expansion of those rights is unwarranted. . . .Physicians should support an ethic that allows for all legal options, even those they would not choose. Federal laws may make room for the rights of conscience, but health care providers \u2014 and all those whose jobs affect patient care \u2014 should cast off the cloak of conscience when patients&#8217; needs demand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Cantor JD. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/nejmp0902019\">Conscientious Objection Gone Awry-Restoring Selfless Professionalism in Medicine<\/a>. N Engl J Med. 2009 Apr 09;360(15):1484-1485. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie D Cantor ExtractHealth care providers already enjoy broad rights \u2014 perhaps too broad \u2014 to follow their guiding moral or religious tenets when it comes to sterilization and abortion. An expansion of those rights is unwarranted. . . .Physicians should support an ethic that allows for all legal options, even those they would not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conscientious Objection Gone Awry-Restoring Selfless Professionalism in Medicine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,554,2,559,1401,552,720,160],"tags":[1867],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-birth-control","category-ethics","category-journal-article","category-law","category-professionalism","category-religion","category-religious-freedom","category-sterilization","tag-julie-d-cantor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Conscientious Objection Gone Awry-Restoring Selfless Professionalism in Medicine - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anyone whose jobs affect patient care should cast off the cloak of conscience when patients&#039; needs demand it. 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