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Providing Abortion Care When Law and Conscience Collide

  • Mara Buchbinder
  • Dragana Lassiter
  • Rebecca Mercier
  • Amy Bryant
  • Anne Drapkin Lyerly
2016 April
Hastings Center Report 46 (2) : 22-30
DOI: 10.1002/hast.545 PMCID: PMC5013255

Much of the debate on conscience has addressed the ethics of refusal: the rights of providers to refuse to perform procedures to which they object and the interests of the patients who might be harmed by their refusals. But conscience can also be a positive force, grounding decision about offering care.