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  • Bioethics
  • Professional Responsibility

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  • Conscientious objection (CO) in medicine is a right to refuse legal duties that violate personal moral, religious, or philosophical convictions.
  • Debates persist on whether physicians must uniformly follow all legal mandates, even those conflicting with medical ethics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To summarize arguments presented at a 2022 College of Physicians of Madrid debate on conscientious objection in the medical profession.
  • To explore the tension between legal obligations and medical ethics, particularly concerning recent Spanish legislation.

Main Methods:

  • Summary of arguments from an open debate.
  • Analysis of ethical principles and legal frameworks related to medical practice.

Main Results:

  • CO is not insubordination but a protection of physician freedom to adhere to medical ethics.
  • Suppressing the ethical dimension of care can harm physicians, patients, and society.
  • Recent Spanish laws on abortion, euthanasia, and sex reassignment for minors raise ethical concerns.

Conclusions:

  • Medical care must align with medical ethics, prioritizing patient well-being.
  • Requesting volunteer lists for ethically contentious procedures is preferable to intrusive conscientious objector registries.
  • CO serves as a crucial tool to safeguard physician autonomy and uphold ethical medical practice.