{"id":3506,"date":"2013-08-20T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:38:37","slug":"the-problem-of-unregulated-conscientious-objection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"The problem of unregulated conscientious objection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">\u00a0\u00a0Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In late 2010, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was presented with a report from its Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee expressing deep concern about the problem of &#8220;unregulated conscientious objection&#8221; in Europe.\u00a0 The Committee proposed to solve this problem by having states adopt &#8220;comprehensive and clear regulations&#8221; to address it.<\/p>\n<p>The Council ultimately adopted a resolution that almost completely contradicted the premises of the report, but in 2011 the theme was resurrected by Dr. Leslie Cannold, an Australian ethicist.\u00a0 Dr. Cannold warned that, &#8220;[a]t best, unregulated conscientious objection is an accident waiting to happen,&#8221; and, at worst, &#8220;a sword wielded by the pious against the vulnerable with catastrophic results.&#8221;\u00a0 It was, she wrote, &#8220;a pressing problem from which we can no longer, in good conscience, look away.&#8221; . . .[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/\/procedures\/execution001.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0Sean Murphy* In late 2010, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was presented with a report from its Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee expressing deep concern about the problem of &#8220;unregulated conscientious objection&#8221; in Europe.\u00a0 The Committee proposed to solve this problem by having states adopt &#8220;comprehensive and clear regulations&#8221; to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3506\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The problem of unregulated conscientious objection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,844,36,287,28],"tags":[62,65,865,853,857,127,845,850,860,3281,851,274,296,317,339,351,360,368],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-catholicism","category-execution","category-essays","category-protection-of-conscience-project","category-usa","tag-american-civil-liberties-union-aclu","tag-american-medical-association","tag-amnesty-international","tag-capital-punishment","tag-center-for-reproductive-rights","tag-council-of-europe","tag-lethal-injection","tag-lundbeck","tag-nembutal","tag-parliamentary-assembly-of-the-council-of-europe-pace","tag-pentobarbital","tag-pharmaceutical-hippocratic-oath","tag-reprieve","tag-sean-murphy","tag-texas","tag-united-nations","tag-washington-state","tag-world-medical-association-wma"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>The problem of unregulated conscientious objection - 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