ArticleTheoretical medicine and bioethics2019
Protecting reasonable conscientious refusals in health care.
Article in Theoretical medicine and bioethics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Building Moral Community in an Age of Polarization: A Model for Reconciling Rights of Conscience in Healthcare Organizations.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Article
- Professional obligations and the demandingness of acting against one's conscience.Journal of medical ethics · 2025Article
- Positive and Negative Rights of Conscience: Balancing When Rights Conflict.The Linacre quarterly · 2024Article
- Guidelines for conscientious objection in Spain: a proposal involving prerequisites and protocolized procedure.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2024Article
- Catholic Hospitals Should Permit Physicians to Provide Emergency Contraception to Rape Victims as an Act of Conscientious Provision.The Linacre quarterly · 2023Article
- Conscientious Objection and the Impact on Transgender Patients: a Response to "Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Transgender Healthcare".Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Conscientious Objection: A Talmudic Paradigm Shift.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Conscientious objection in health care.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2019Article
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Abstract
Recently, debate over whether health care providers should have a protected right to conscientiously refuse to offer legal health care services-such as abortion, elective sterilization, aid in dying, or treatments for transgender patients-has grown exponentially. I advance a modified compromise view that bases respect for claims of conscientious refusal to provide specific health care services on a publicly defensible rationale. This view requires health care providers who refuse such services to disclose their availability by other providers, as well as to arrange for referrals or facilitate transfers of care. This requirement raises the question of whether providers are being forced to be complicit in the provision of services they deem to be morally objectionable. I conclude by showing how this modified compromise view answers the most significant objections mounted by critics of the right to conscientious refusal and safeguards providers from having to offer services that most directly threaten their moral integrity.
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