Principled Conscientious Provision
Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20338136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abram Brummett (0000-0003-0511-574X), Abram L Brummett, Tanner Hafen, Mark C Navin (0000-0002-8511-6517) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 3-10 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/hast.4902 |
| PMID | 39116174 |
| OpenAlex | W4401417527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
“Conscientious provision” refers to situations in which clinicians wish to provide legal and professionally accepted treatments prohibited within their (usually Catholic) health care institutions. It mirrors “conscientious objection,” which refers to situations in which clinicians refuse to provide legal and professionally accepted treatments offered within their (usually secular) health care institutions. Conscientious provision is not protected by law, but conscientious objection is. In practice, this asymmetry privileges conservative religious or moral values (usually associated with objection) over secular moral values (usually associated with provision). In this article, we first argue for a legal right to one kind of conscientious provision: referral for procedures prohibited at Catholic hospitals. We then argue that a premise in that argument—the principle of comparably trivial institutional burdens— justifies legal protections for some additional forms of conscientious provision that include, for example, writing prescriptions for contraception or medical abortions. However, this principle cannot justify legal protections for other forms of conscientious provision, for instance, the right to perform surgical abortions or gender‐affirming hysterectomies at Catholic hospitals
Abortion · Argument (complex analysis) · Conscience · Conscientious objector · Epistemology · Family medicine · Health care · Political science · Premise · Referral · Sociology · Law · Medicine · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophy · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |