- Introduction
- Current policies and laws
- Abuse
- Impact
- Dishonourable disobedience
- Solutions
- Conscientious commitment
- Victims of “CO”
- Victims of “CO” – Introduction
- 19 women (anonymous) – USA
- D.A. (2019) Argentina
- Lucia (2019) – Argentina
- Dr. Ralph’s patient (2017) – USA
- Andrea (2017) – Costa Rica
- Valentina Milluzzo † (2016) – Italy
- Ana (2014) – Spain
- Immigrant rape victim (2014) – Ireland
- Anonymous (2014) – Ireland
- Savita † (2012) – Ireland
- Paula (2012) – Spain
- Franzisca (2012) – Spain
- Aurora (2012) Costa Rica
- Kathleen Prieskorn (2011) – USA
- Pordenone victim (2010) – Italy
- Tamesha (2010) – USA
- Valentina Magnanti (2010) – Italy
- Mindy (2009) – USA
- Laura (2008) – Italy
- Ana (2007) – Costa Rica
- Irena (2007) – Spain
- L.C. (2007) – Peru
- X (2007) – Colombia
- LMR (2006) – Argentina
- Ms B † (2004) – New Zealand
- Edyta † (2004) – Poland
- Severina (2004) – Brazil
- Rosa (2003) – Nicaragua
- R.R. (2003) – Poland
- K.L. (2001) – Peru
- Alicja (2000) – Poland
- Paulina (2000) – Mexico
- Kathleen Hutchins (1998) – USA
- Lauren (1996) – USA
- Susan (1995) – USA
- Sophie (1994) – USA
- Our publications
- (April 2019) What International Human Rights Groups and Agreements, and Global Health Orgs, Say About “Conscientious Objection” in Healthcare
- (Aug 2018) Lessons learnt from the past: “Conscientious objection” to abortion in Chile will lead to widespread disobedience of the new law
- (July 2018) Expert group denounces the refusal to treat under ‘conscientious objection’
- (April 2018) Letter to the Editor: The FSRH guideline on conscientious objection disrespects patient rights and endangers their health
- (Sept 2017) Letter to the Editor: Refusal to Treat Patients Does Not Work in Any Country—Even If Misleadingly Labelled “Conscientious Objection”
- (Sept 2017) “Conscientious Objection” Clause in 1967 Abortion Act is Obsolete
- (July 2017) There Is No Defense for ‘Conscientious Objection’ in Reproductive Health Care
- (June 2017) “Conscientious objection” kills women
- (Nov 2016) The dishonourable disobedience of not providing abortion
- (Oct 2015) “Conscientious Objection” in Reproductive Healthcare is Immoral and Should Be Abolished
- (April 2015) Christian doctors angry they can no longer abandon their patients
- (Aug 2014) Doctors do not have the right to discriminate and deny basic healthcare
- (July 2014) The CO debate: ‘Conscientious Objection’ is still dishonourable disobedience
- (May 2014) Why We Need to Ban ‘Conscientious Objection’ in Reproductive Healthcare
- (March 2014) ‘Dishonourable Disobedience’: Why Refusal to Treat in Reproductive Healthcare Is Not Conscientious Objection.
- (Feb 2016) Yes We Can! Successful Examples of Disallowing ‘Conscientious Objection’ in Reproductive Healthcare
- (Aug 2013) Conscientious objection and induced abortion in Europe
- Publications by others
- Introduction
- (Aug 2018) On the Revolutionary Road to Reproductive Justice
- (July 2018) IWHC Brief to Constitutional Court of Colombia: Abortion Restrictions are Ineffective and Harmful
- (July 2018) Being a Doctor and Being a Hospital
- (July 2018) Provider Conscientious Refusal, Medical Malpractice, and the Right to Civil Recourse
- (July 2018) Enforcing Conscientious Objection to Abortion in Medical Emergency Circumstances: Criminal and Unethical
- (June 2018) Unconscionable: When Providers Deny Abortion Care
- (June 2018) Conscientious objection: a morally insupportable misuse of authority
- (Jun 2018) Conscientious objection in medicine: accommodation versus professionalism and the public good
- (May 2018) Public cartels, private conscience
- (April 2017) Physicians, Not Conscripts — Conscientious Objection in Health Care
- (Apr 2017) Against the accommodation of subjective healthcare provider beliefs in medicine: counteracting supporters of conscientious objector accommodation arguments
- (Jan 2017) My Conscience May Be My Guide, but You May Not Need to Honor It
- (Jan 2017) The Legal Ethical Backbone of Conscientious Refusal
- (Jan 2017) The Cost of Conscience: Kant on Conscience and Conscientious Objection
- (Dec 2016) An Argument Against Conscience Exemptions in Healthcare
- (Fall 2016) Accommodating Conscientious Objection in Medicine-Private Ideological Convictions Must Not Trump Professional Obligations
- (Sept 2016) Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception
- (April 2016) Why medical professionals have no moral claim to CO accommodation…
- (Nov 2015) The right to die and the medical cartel
- (June 2014) The paradox of conscientious objection and the anemic concept of ‘conscience’
- (2009) Conscentious Objection in Medicine: private ideological convictions…
- (Mar 2011) The questionable ethics of unregulated conscientious refusal
- (Nov 2009) Denial of Abortion Care … Undermines Quality Care for U.S. Women
- (2009) Conscious Oppression…in sphere of sexual/reproductive health
- (2006) Conscientious objection in medicine
- (Feb 2006) The Priority of Professional Ethics Over Personal Morality
- (1993) Futile care. Physicians should not be allowed to refuse to treat. Point.
- News
- Links
(Nov 2016) The dishonourable disobedience of not providing abortion
Letter to the Editor
European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care
Joyce Arthur, Christian Fiala, Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Published online: 04 Nov 2016
pdf
Synopsis: While stigma negatively impacts almost every aspect of abortion care to some degree, ‘dishonourable disobedience’ is a form of full-blown, officially-approved stigma, which makes it particularly unsupportable, especially when abortion access is already curtailed by stigma in so many other ways.