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    • Bioethics
    • Medical Law
    • Healthcare Policy

    Background:

    • Healthcare practitioners, particularly Roman Catholic ones, grapple with complicity in abortion procedures.
    • Existing legal and ethical frameworks mandate facilitation (informing, referring) despite personal objections.
    • This requirement is criticized for potentially compromising patient well-being and practitioner moral integrity.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze the ethical challenges of complicity in abortion facilitation for objecting healthcare practitioners.
    • To evaluate the adequacy of current solutions in protecting both patients and practitioners.
    • To propose an alternative framework for managing conscientious objection in abortion care.

    Main Methods:

    • Ethical analysis of complicity in healthcare.
    • Review of existing literature and legislation on conscientious objection.
    • Development of a novel solution based on workforce composition.

    Main Results:

    • Current practices of requiring referral and information provision fail to adequately protect patient well-being.
    • These practices also undermine the moral integrity of healthcare practitioners with objections.
    • A proposed solution involves establishing a strategic ratio of conscientious objectors to non-objectors.

    Conclusions:

    • The standard approach to conscientious objection in abortion care is ethically insufficient.
    • A new model is needed to balance healthcare provider ethics with patient access to care.
    • Workforce planning, specifically managing the ratio of objectors, offers a promising alternative.