{"id":14262,"date":"2019-06-19T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14262"},"modified":"2023-01-22T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:55:47","slug":"public-reason-in-justifications-of-conscientious-objection-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14262","title":{"rendered":"Public reason in justifications of conscientious objection in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doug McConnell, Robert F Card<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"174\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bioethics.jpg\" alt=\"Bioethics\" class=\"wp-image-11050\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bioethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Current mainstream approaches to conscientious objection either uphold the standards of public health care by preventing objections or protect the consciences of health\u2010care professionals by accommodating objections. Public justification approaches are a compromise position that accommodate conscientious objections only when objectors can publicly justify the grounds of their objections. Public justification approaches require objectors and assessors to speak a common normative language and to this end it has been suggested that objectors should be required to cast their objection in terms of public reason. We provide critical support for such a public reason condition and argue that it would be neither too demanding nor too permissive. We also respond to objections that it unfairly favours secular over religious objectors and that public reasons cannot be held with the kind of sincerity thought to characterize conscientious objections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>McConnell D, Card RF. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/bioe.12573\">Public reason in justifications of conscientious objection in health care<\/a>. Bioethics 2019 Jun;33(5):625-632. doi: 10.1111\/bioe.12573<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug McConnell, Robert F Card AbstractCurrent mainstream approaches to conscientious objection either uphold the standards of public health care by preventing objections or protect the consciences of health\u2010care professionals by accommodating objections. Public justification approaches are a compromise position that accommodate conscientious objections only when objectors can publicly justify the grounds of their objections. Public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Public reason in justifications of conscientious objection in health care&#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":[554,2,659],"tags":[1348,1347,1258],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-14262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journal-article","category-philosophy","tag-doug-mcconnell","tag-reasonability-view","tag-robert-f-card"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Public reason in justifications of conscientious objection in health care - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Conscientious objectors must explain their objection in terms of public reason. 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