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Conscientious objection: justified or just refusal to care?
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In general terms, healthcare professionals are not at liberty to refuse to care for any patient (UKCC 2004). However, as the law permits patients to do what is morally and ethically right for them with regard to termination of pregnancy, it must also extend this right to the healthcare professional. The Abortion Act (1967, Section 4 (i)) permits healthcare professionals to refuse participation on the grounds of conscientious objection. As there is no statutory definition of conscientious obje...
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Assessing Conscientious Objection Around the World
Peacework
; It is difficult to give a panorama of the right to conscientious objection within the available space - the world is big, and situations are quite different. Conscientious objection in Western Europe for example means something very different from conscientious objection in Eritrea, or South Korea,
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Equality with a vengeance: female conscientious objectors in pursuit of a voice and substantive gender equality.(Israel)
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
; In December 2002, Shani Werner, a member of a group of young Israeli women who refused to serve in the military because of their conscientious objection to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, wrote an open letter to the other members of her group: When we drafted our first protest letter as
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Conscientious Objection in Russia Highlighting the Right to Refuse to Kill
Peacework
; War Resisters International produces an annual Prisoners for Peace honor roll to honor jailed war resisters around the world, provide addresses for jailed resisters when known, and to spotlight abuses in particular countries. Russia is the focus country of the most recent report. The material below
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To Defend the Constitution: Religion, Conscientious Objection, Naturalization, and the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
Journal of Church and State
; To Defend the Constitution: Religion, Conscientious Objection, Naturalization and the Supreme Court. By Ronald B. Flowers. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. 519 pp. n.p. With clear-eyed understanding of church-state history and an incredible attention to detail, Ron Flowers opens up the
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Essay collection confronts touchy issue of conscientious objectors
Winnipeg Free Press
; Against the Draft Essays on Conscientious Objection From the Radical Reformation to the Second World War By Peter Brock University of Toronto Press, 462 pages, $52.80 Reviewed by Paul Doerksen AT a time when Canada is officially committed to military involvement in Iraq, it is still possible to
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