Article info
PDFControversy
Is it ethical for a general practitioner to claim a conscientious objection when asked to refer for abortion?
- Correspondence to Dr J W Gerrard, Windmill Health Centre, Mill Green View, Leeds LS14 5JS, UK; james.gerrard{at}nhs.net
Citation
Is it ethical for a general practitioner to claim a conscientious objection when asked to refer for abortion?
Publication history
- Received March 5, 2009
- Revised June 1, 2009
- Accepted June 5, 2009
- First published September 30, 2009.
Online issue publication
April 27, 2016
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Institute of Medical Ethics. All rights reserved.
Other content recommended for you
- Freedom of conscience in Europe? An analysis of three cases of midwives with conscientious objection to abortion
- Conscientious objection in healthcare and the duty to refer
- Professional and conscience-based refusals: the case of the psychiatrist's harmful prescription
- Conscientious objection in Italy
- Conscientious objection and the referral requirement as morally permissible moral mistakes
- Conscientious objection: unmasking the impartial spectator
- Why medical professionals have no moral claim to conscientious objection accommodation in liberal democracies
- A clear case for conscience in healthcare practice
- The truth behind conscientious objection in medicine
- Conscientious objection in healthcare: why tribunals might be the answer