Doctors' right to refuse to perform abortions

The right to refuse treatment.

The constitutional right to refuse antipsychotic medications.

Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception

In an article in this journal, Christopher Cowley argues that we have 'misunderstood the special nature of medicine, and have misunderstood the motivations of the conscientious objectors'. We have not. It is Cowley who has misunderstood the role of personal values in the profession of medicine. We argue that there should be better protections for patients from doctors' personal values and there...

Commentary. 1: The right to refuse treatment.

The author suggests that by providing ventilators (or other equipment) with a mechanism which would automatically switch them off, (thus allowing the patient to die without the intervention of another human being switching the machine off) doctors would somehow be spared the moral dilemma and responsibility of acceding to a patient's request for a life-support system to be withdrawn. This "lega...

The right to refuse treatment: administrative considerations.

The psychiatric administrator tends to view the subject "the right to refu.se treatment" with trepidation, particularly if he is responsible for a public psychiatric hospital to which involuntary patients are committed. It is there that the passing of the patient from one treatment program to another stops. Other administrators representing community out-patient clinics, mental health centers, ...