{"id":162,"date":"2012-09-13T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=162"},"modified":"2023-01-22T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T01:44:19","slug":"physicians-who-provide-abortion-assisted-suicide-need-conscience-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing conscience in abortion provision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lisa Harris<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><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>The exercise of conscience in health care is generally considered synonymous with refusal to participate in contested medical services, especially abortion. This depiction neglects the fact that the provision of abortion care is also conscience-based. The persistent failure to recognize abortion <em>provision<\/em> as \u201cconscientious\u201d has resulted in laws that do not protect caregivers who are compelled by conscience to provide abortion services, contributes to the ongoing stigmatization of abortion providers, and leaves theoretical and practical blind spots in bioethics with respect to positive claims of conscience \u2014 that is, conscience-based claims for offering care, rather than for refusing to provide it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris L. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1206253?query=TOC\">Recognizing conscience in abortion provision<\/a>. N Engl J Med 2012; 367:981-983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Harris ExtractThe exercise of conscience in health care is generally considered synonymous with refusal to participate in contested medical services, especially abortion. This depiction neglects the fact that the provision of abortion care is also conscience-based. The persistent failure to recognize abortion provision as \u201cconscientious\u201d has resulted in laws that do not protect caregivers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recognizing conscience in abortion provision&#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":[11,12,554,2],"tags":[13],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-ethics","category-journal-article","tag-lisa-harris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Recognizing conscience in abortion provision - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Providing abortion is conscience-based. 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