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RS Ferguson<\/h4>\n\n\n
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It will be interesting to learn, when the Representative Body takes its decisions, whether this ” official ” medical ethics will concede the right, sometimes even the duty, of the convinced dissenter to adopt the stand of conscientious objector. Or will the moral empire be essentially totalitarian in nature ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferguson R. (Correspondence) Ethics and Abortion<\/a>. Br Med J. 1968 April 20;2(5598):173. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RS Ferguson ExtractIt will be interesting to learn, when the Representative Body takes its decisions, whether this ” official ” medical ethics will concede the right, sometimes even the duty, of the convinced dissenter to adopt the stand of conscientious objector. Or will the moral empire be essentially totalitarian in nature ? Ferguson R. 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