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They Volunteered to Get Hepatitis

“I’m not willing to kill for my country—but I am willing to die for it.” So spoke a “Conchie,” a conscientious objector who volunteered to participate in medical experiments during World War II as a way to avoid military service.
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Bioethics Forum Essay
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Tennessee’s Inappropriate Reliance on Conscientious Objection

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means,” Inigo Montoya to Vizzini in The Princess Bride Imagine this scenario: You are newly...
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Bioethics Forum Essay

A Model of Conscientious Objection to Abortion Bans

Many clinicians have followed their conscience to find ways to provide good care within the confines of abortion bans. Henry Morgentaler was a model.
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Bioethics Forum Essay
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Legalized Medical Discrimination Violates Medical Ethics

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed SB 1580, a bill that that shields health care providers, institutions, and insurers who decline to treat patients or refuse to pay for care...
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