Stakeholders in law, medicine, and religion are unable to reach consensus about how best
to address conflicts between healthcare providers' conscientious objections to treatment and …

The day before the inauguration of his Democratic successor, President George W. Bush
oversaw the promulgation of an administrative rule that extended “sweeping” 1 new …

In this note, Katherine A. White explores the conflict between religious health care providers
who provide care in accordance with their religious beliefs and the patients who want …

This paper addresses laws and practices urged by conservative religious organizations that
invoke conscientious objection in order to deny patients access to lawful procedures. Many …

Today health care providers increasingly find that some health care practices implicate
serious moral concerns. Social, legal, and medical developments involving abortion …

We're used to hearing about conscientious refusal: when physicians or pharmacists deny
services they deem sinful or wrong, in violation of hospital policies or malpractice laws. Less …

A balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to
refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience. Physicians in the United States …

This Article argues that patient-centered care is the model from which refusal policy should
be derived. By entering the medical profession, practitioners agree to a set of ethical …

While mainstream, establishment medical journals have published opinion pieces
condemning conscientious refusals in medical care, American law has consistently and …

Which Legal Approaches Help Limit Harms to Patients From Clinicians’ Conscience-Based
Refusals? | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association Skip to main content AMA Journal …