{"id":14320,"date":"2001-02-19T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-19T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2023-01-28T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:21:04","slug":"reproductive-health-services-and-the-law-and-ethics-of-conscientious-objection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14320","title":{"rendered":"Reproductive Health Services and the Law and Ethics of Conscientious Objection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bernard M Dickens<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"157\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medlaw.jpg\" alt=\"Medicine and Law\" class=\"wp-image-11149\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Medicine and Law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Reproductive health services address contraception, sterilization and abortion, and new technologies such as gamete selection and manipulation,in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood. Artificial fertility control and medically assisted reproduction are opposed by conservative religions and philosophies, whose adherents may object to participation. Physicians&#8217; conscientious objection to non-lifesaving interventions in pregnancy have long been accepted. Nurses&#8217; claims are less recognized, allowing nonparticipation in abortions but not refusal of patient preparation and aftercare. Objections of others in health- related activities, such as serving meals to abortion patients and typing abortion referral letters, have been disallowed. Pharmacists may claim refusal rights over fulfilling prescriptions for emergency (post-coital) contraceptives and drugs for medical (i.e. non-surgical) abortion. This paper addresses limits to conscientious objection to participation in reproductive health services, and conditions to which rights of objection may be subject. Individuals have human rights to freedom of religious conscience, but institutions, as artificial legal persons, may not claim this right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickens BM. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/11849940_Reproductive_health_services_and_the_law_and_ethics_of_conscientious_objection\">Reproductive Health Services and the Law and Ethics of Conscientious Objection<\/a>. Med Law. 2001;20(2)283-293.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard M Dickens AbstractReproductive health services address contraception, sterilization and abortion, and new technologies such as gamete selection and manipulation,in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood. Artificial fertility control and medically assisted reproduction are opposed by conservative religions and philosophies, whose adherents may object to participation. Physicians&#8217; conscientious objection to non-lifesaving interventions in pregnancy have long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reproductive Health Services and the Law and Ethics of Conscientious Objection&#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":[1645,2,964,825],"tags":[1147],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-14320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions-hospitals-etc","category-journal-article","category-nursing","category-pharmacy","tag-bernard-m-dickens"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Reproductive Health Services and the Law and Ethics of Conscientious Objection - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Addresses limits to conscientious objection to participation in artificial reproduction. 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