{"id":12980,"date":"2003-07-22T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12980"},"modified":"2023-02-02T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:57:09","slug":"editorial-unwanted-results-the-ethics-of-controversial-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12980","title":{"rendered":"(Editorial) Unwanted results: the ethics of controversial research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CMAJ<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cmaj.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ\" class=\"wp-image-11269\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>. . . We are chided for publishing flawed research and told that we should be ashamed of publishing the \u201copinions\u201d of self-evidently biased researchers. We are accused of doing a disservice to women, medicine and the Journal, of failing to conduct proper peer review, and of not adequately scrutinizing the credentials of the authors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abortion debate is so highly charged that a state of<br>respectful listening on either side is almost impossible to achieve. This debate is conducted publicly in religious, ideological and political terms: forms of discourse in which detachment is rare. But we do seem to have the idea in medicine that science offers us a more dispassionate means of analysis. To consider abortion as a health issue, indeed as a medical \u201cprocedure,\u201d is to remove it from metaphysical and moral argument and to place it in a pragmatic realm where one deals in terms such as safety, equity of access, outcomes and risk\u2013benefit ratios, and where the prevailing ethical discourse, when it is evoked, uses secular words like autonomy and patient choice. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>CMAJ. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC164957\/pdf\/20030722s00001p93.pdf\">(Editorial) Unwanted results: the ethics of controversial research<\/a>. Can. Med. Assoc. J.. 2003 Jul 22;169(2):93.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMAJ Extract. . . We are chided for publishing flawed research and told that we should be ashamed of publishing the \u201copinions\u201d of self-evidently biased researchers. 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