1. Accommodating Conscience Without Curtailing Women's Rights, Health, and Lives.
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Allen, William L.
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ABORTION laws , *CONSCIENCE , *COUNSELING , *DECISION making , *EMERGENCY medical services , *ETHICS , *HOMICIDE , *LEGAL liability , *LIFE expectancy , *MALPRACTICE , *MATERNAL mortality , *PREGNANCY complications , *PUBLIC health , *WOMEN'S health , *WOMEN'S rights , *WRONGFUL death , *PATIENT refusal of treatment , *DIAGNOSIS - Abstract
The authors comment on an article in the periodical, which focuses on ethical aspects of physicians refusing to perform abortions and role of conscience in it. Topics discussed include the need to accommodation women's rights with the rights of physicians for conscientious objection to abortion; the refusal to abortion in life-threatening emergencies; and the risk for women at the Michigan Catholic hospitals.
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- 2018
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