{"id":7389,"date":"2017-09-26T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:14:17","slug":"doctors-for-life-ireland-statement-on-conscientious-objection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7389","title":{"rendered":"Doctors for Life Ireland Statement on Conscientious Objection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. The practice of medicine is a service to human dignity and doctors must adhere to\u00a0the highest standards of professional competence in treating, protecting and\u00a0advocating for patients.<\/p>\n<p>2. In the course of their work on behalf of patients, doctors have the right not to\u00a0participate in procedures which, in conscience, they believe to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>3. Doctors should not, by action or omission, deliberately shorten a patient&#8217;s life.\u00a0Doctors must respect a patient&#8217;s fully-informed decision to refuse life-sustaining\u00a0treatment or to request withdrawal of medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>4. Doctors have the right to refuse applications for referral for treatments to which\u00a0they object in conscience.<\/p>\n<p>5. Doctors have an obligation to provide care in emergencies, even if the condition\u00a0results from a procedure to which the doctor has a conscientious objection.<\/p>\n<p>6. Doctors have an obligation to explain the reasons for their conscientious objection\u00a0with clarity and courtesy to patients and colleagues. Patients have a right to see\u00a0another doctor and to be given impartial information as to how they can exercise that\u00a0right. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/\/policy\/associations-014.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The practice of medicine is a service to human dignity and doctors must adhere to\u00a0the highest standards of professional competence in treating, protecting and\u00a0advocating for patients. 2. In the course of their work on behalf of patients, doctors have the right not to\u00a0participate in procedures which, in conscience, they believe to be wrong. 3. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors for Life Ireland Statement on 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":[41,2339],"tags":[2596],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-policies","tag-doctors-for-life-ireland"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Doctors for Life Ireland Statement on Conscientious Objection - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7389\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctors for Life Ireland Statement on Conscientious Objection - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1. 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