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No conscientious objection without normative justification: Against conscientious objection in medicine
1Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Bioethics
|September 27, 2018
Summary
Medical professionals must justify conscientious objection claims. Shifting the burden to patient harm doesn't avoid the need for normative justification of these objections.
Area of Science:
- Medical Ethics
- Philosophy of Medicine
Background:
- Conscientious objection accommodation in medicine requires constraints.
- Not all conscientious beliefs justify refusing patient service.
Purpose of the Study:
- To argue that the reasonability of conscientious claims requires normative justification.
- To analyze the shift of justificatory burden to patient condition.
Main Methods:
- Philosophical argumentation.
- Analysis of normative operators like 'warranted harm'.
Main Results:
- Assessing conscientious claims necessitates normative justification.
- Focusing on patient harm does not circumvent the need for justifying the objection itself.
Conclusions:
- Advocates of conscientious objection must provide normative justification for their claims.
- The onus remains on objectors to justify their refusals in medical contexts.
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