{"id":9525,"date":"2019-09-16T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T21:29:51","slug":"a-philosophical-defense-of-conscientious-objection-to-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9525","title":{"rendered":"A Philosophical Defense of Conscientious Objection to Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Medical Bag <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Medical Bag Contributing Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         In an <a href=\"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2019\/08\/30\/medethics-2019-105566\">article published in the <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2019\/08\/30\/medethics-2019-105566\">Journal of Medical Ethics<\/a><\/em>, Bruce Philip Blackshaw of the department of philosophy at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and Daniel Rodger from the School of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, United Kingdom, defended conscientious objection to abortion provision, claiming that the usual arguments critics make for disqualifying conscientious objection in healthcare do not apply in cases of abortion. . . 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