{"id":7070,"date":"2016-09-28T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T23:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:57:14","slug":"doctors-needed-leave-your-conscience-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7070","title":{"rendered":"Doctors needed. Leave your conscience at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u00a0National Post<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Marni Soupcoff<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper, two prominent bioethicists suggest that all doctors should be required to see to it personally that any medical procedure \u2014 including abortions and assisted suicides \u2014 be performed for patients who request and qualify for them.<\/p>\n<p>This should be the case, the authors argue, despite any personal moral or religious qualms the doctors may have about the operations or prescriptions in question. Sadly for devout Catholics, evangelical Protestants or others with deep religious or moral convictions, the prospect of medical school itself would be completely off the table if co-authors Udo Schuklenk and Julian Savulescu had their way; they argue that medical students should be screened for over-active consciences when it comes to things like contraception, abortion and euthanasia. Apparently those for whom these issues are anything but no-brainers shouldn\u2019t be considered acceptable physician material at all. . . [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/marni-soupcoff-doctors-have-rights-too\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0National Post Marni Soupcoff In a new paper, two prominent bioethicists suggest that all doctors should be required to see to it personally that any medical procedure \u2014 including abortions and assisted suicides \u2014 be performed for patients who request and qualify for them. This should be the case, the authors argue, despite any personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors needed. 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