Department of Medicine, University of Chester, Chester, UK
St Christopher's Hospice, Cicely Saunders Institute Kings College, London, UK.
BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2019 Dec;9(4):464-467. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2018-001541. Epub 2018 Nov 15.
Conscience objection is a proposed way of ensuring that medical practitioners who object to physician-assisted suicide may avoid having to be involved in such a procedure if this is legalised. This right on the part of healthcare professionals already exists in certain circumstances. This paper examines the ethical and legal grounds for conscientious objection for medical professionals and shows how it is heavily criticised in circumstances where it is already used. The paper comes to the conclusion that as the grounds and application of conscience objection are no longer as widely accepted, its future application in any legislation can be called into question.
出于良心拒行是一种确保反对协助自杀的医生，如果该行为合法化，也不必参与其中的建议方法。在某些情况下，医护人员已经享有这种权利。本文审查了医疗专业人员出于良心拒行的伦理和法律依据，并展示了在已经使用该理由的情况下，它是如何受到强烈批评的。本文得出的结论是，由于出于良心拒行的理由和应用不再被广泛接受，因此在任何立法中对其未来的应用都值得质疑。
