Conscientious objection (CO) in medicine grew out of the need to protect healthcare
providers who objected to performing abortions after the Roe v. Wade decision in the 1970s …

Conscientious objection (CO) in medicine is where a healthcare professional (HCP) firmly
opposes, with an expression of reasoned disapproval, a legally available procedure or …

In this paper, I take up the role of conscience in medical practice. I focus on the role that
religious claims play in debates over conscience in medicine, in particular, and in …

This article attempts to motivate a reorientation of ethical analysis of conscientious objection
(CO) by physicians. First, it presents an illustrative case from a hospital emergency …

The proper role of conscience in healthcare continues to be a topic of deep interest for
bioethicists, healthcare professionals, and health policy experts. This issue of HEC Forum …

Abstract In “Disentangling Conscience Protections,” in this issue of the Hastings Center
Report, Nadia Sawicki offers a taxonomy of conscience protection laws (conscience …

For Americans with significant disability, decisions about where to live are common
flashpoints for the dignity of risk principle. Typically, a health-care professional, like the …

Prof. Nelson (2018) makes a compelling argument that conscientious objection to abortion
(COTA) laws should not immunize health care providers from criminal prosecution when …