doctor refuseIn a recent article, the Editors-in-Chief of two leading ethics journals stress that there should be better protections for patients from doctors’ personal values as well as more severe restrictions on the right of clinicians to conscientious objection, particularly in relation to assisted dying.

They add that doctors can campaign for policy or legal reform and they can provide advice with reasons based on their values, but they have no claim to special moral status that would permit them to deny patients medical care to which these patients are entitled.

Source: Wiley

Full bibliographic information:Julian Savulescu and Udo Schuklenk. Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception. Bioethics.