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"A young woman needs an abortion and the reasons, while urgent, are not
medical. A United States Navy nurse at Guantánamo Bay is ordered to force-feed
a defiant detainee on hunger strike.
These very different real-life cases have one connecting thread: the question
of whether a health professional can conscientiously object to carrying out a
patient’s request.
Freedom of conscience is often held up as a purely noble principle. But when
it’s used to deny health care, it means a single person’s beliefs are dictating
what is best for another person’s physical and mental health – which can have
devastating, even fatal, results.
In our recent book,
Rethinking Conscientious Objection in Healthcare,
colleagues and I conclude doctors should not be free to make medical decisions
based on their personal beliefs."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
