Response to: ‘Why medical professionals have no moral claim to conscientious objection accommodation in liberal democracies’ by Schuklenk and Smalling

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Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (4):248-249 (2017)
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The recent essay by Schuklenk and Smalling opposing respect for physicians’ conscientious objections to providing patients with medical services that are legally permitted in liberal democracies is based on several erroneous assumptions. Acting in this manner would have serious harmful effects on the ethos of medicine and of bioethics. A much more nuanced and balanced position is critical in order to respect physicians’ conscience with minimal damage to patients’ rights.

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10.1136/medethics-2016-103670

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Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience.Abe Fortas - 1972 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 26 (3):471-472.

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