{"id":4161,"date":"2013-03-22T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2023-01-28T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:30:05","slug":"institutional-conscience-and-access-to-services-can-we-have-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"Institutional conscience and access to services: can we have both?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cameron Flynn, Robin Fretwell Wilson<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493.jpg\" alt=\"American Medical Association Journal of Ethics\" class=\"wp-image-11169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American Medical Association Journal of Ethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>It appears, at times, that health care and religion do not mix. Consider the sterilization and contraception coverage mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The mandate requires nearly all employers and health insurers to cover as \u201cessential health care services\u201d certain sterilization procedures and contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives. Members of the Catholic, evangelical Christian, Mennonite, and Muslim faith communities say that the mandate places them \u201cin the untenable position of having to choose between violating the law and violating their consciences.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Flynn C, Wilson RF.<a href=\"https:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/article\/institutional-conscience-and-access-services-can-we-have-both\/2013-03\"> Institutional conscience and access to services: can we have both?<\/a>  Virtual Mentor. 2013;15(3):226-235. doi: 10.1001\/virtualmentor.2013.15.3.pfor1-1303.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Flynn, Robin Fretwell Wilson ExtractIt appears, at times, that health care and religion do not mix. Consider the sterilization and contraception coverage mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 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