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Valuing Conscience And The Conscientious Provision Of Abortions, Carolyn Mcleod

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

In this paper, I hope to do two things. First, I want to show that we should take the ability of physicians to act on their conscience seriously, because normally something important is at stake in allowing them to do so. That’s true regardless of what their views are on abortion. There is value in allowing physicians to act conscientiously, whether that action involves the conscientious provision or conscientious refusal of abortions. I will argue that the value of acting conscientiously supports a system that regulates these two types of action symmetrically. Here, I will draw on a theory about …

Genetic Interventions: (Yet) Another Challenge To Allocating Health Care, Arti K. Rai

San Diego Law Review

Much of the existing literature on genetic intervention addresses questions of discrimination or reproductive decisionmaking. Although this book discusses those questions,

it takes as its major focus an issue that is perhaps even more vexing—the issue of how we should, from the standpoint of distributive justice, allocate genetic interventions. In other words, given the wide range of genetic interventions that may become available, how should we divide such interventions? Implicit in this problem is the reality that scarcity will prevent individuals from having access to all genetic interventions that would be of benefit to them. In this brief Essay, I …

General Legislation, S. Barrow, A. Strassburg

California Regulatory Law Reporter

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General Legislation, S. Barrow, A. Strassburg

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

General Legislation, S. Barrow, A. Strassburg

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.