2007
DOI: 10.1080/15265160701347239
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Conscientious Objection and Emergency Contraception

Abstract: This article argues that practitioners have a professional ethical obligation to dispense emergency contraception, even given conscientious objection to this treatment. This recent controversy affects all medical professionals, including physicians as well as pharmacists. This article begins by analyzing the option of referring the patient to another willing provider. Objecting professionals may conscientiously refuse because they consider emergency contraception to be equivalent to abortion or because they be… Show more

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“…The Italian Ministerial Decree authorising the sale of LNG-EC pills and the drugs' leaflets still state that LNG-EC pills can inhibit not only ovulation, but also embryo implantation. For that reason it has been stated for many years that LNG-EC pills had to be considered as abortifacients from a moral point of view 20 : a statement recently renewed by the Italian National Committee on Bioethics despite clear evidence to the contrary.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Italian Ministerial Decree authorising the sale of LNG-EC pills and the drugs' leaflets still state that LNG-EC pills can inhibit not only ovulation, but also embryo implantation. For that reason it has been stated for many years that LNG-EC pills had to be considered as abortifacients from a moral point of view 20 : a statement recently renewed by the Italian National Committee on Bioethics despite clear evidence to the contrary.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such an integrity can be understood as the relation between accepted principles and expected acts 7 In this case, the issue is clear: we are not dealing with the matter of integrity of conscience at all. By recognising this type of conscientious objection we would only protect some non-moral interests of the interested parties, including financial interests, but not the integrity of their conscience.…”
Section: Authenticity Relevance Thresholdmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En aquellos lugares donde se respeta legalmente a los objetores de conciencia, se propone frecuentemente como solución que el paciente sea derivado a un profesional que no sea objetor. Se ha señalado que esto balancearía los derechos del paciente y del profesional sanitario con objeción de conciencia (17). Sin embargo, pareciera que, al derivar un paciente y por tanto participar en que otro realice lo que nos parece objetable, nos haría en cierta medida también partícipes de ese acto, puesto que seguiríamos formando parte de la cadena causal (17).…”
Section: Conflicto Entre La Objeción De Conciencia Y La Responsabilidunclassified
“…Se ha señalado que esto balancearía los derechos del paciente y del profesional sanitario con objeción de conciencia (17). Sin embargo, pareciera que, al derivar un paciente y por tanto participar en que otro realice lo que nos parece objetable, nos haría en cierta medida también partícipes de ese acto, puesto que seguiríamos formando parte de la cadena causal (17). Si bien es cierto que no somos responsables de los actos de otras personas, si derivamos actuamos en forma indirecta para que se realice lo que consideramos incorrecto.…”
Section: Conflicto Entre La Objeción De Conciencia Y La Responsabilidunclassified
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