Feature | Conscience-based refusals | Professional refusals |
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Basis | Personal ethical or religious beliefs | Professional norms and standards |
Centrality of moral beliefs | Core moral beliefs, fundamental and integral to person's moral identity | Do not form part of person's core moral beliefs |
Experienced significance of acting against moral beliefs | Act of self-betrayal | Act that is morally/professionally inappropriate |
Potential emotional repercussions | Guilt, remorse, loss of self-respect, shame | Moral distress |