Could Abortion Providers Become Conscientious Objectors?

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In 1973, not long after the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, Congress amended the Public Health Service Act to allow medical professionals to refuse to provide abortion care on the basis of their moral or religious beliefs. But if healthcare workers can be “conscientious objectors” to abortion care, couldn’t “conscientious providers” of abortion be legally protected, too? That’s the question University of San Diego law professor and bioethicist Dov Fox asks in his recent New York Times op-ed “What Will Happen if Doctors Defy the Law to Provide Abortions?” We’ll talk to Fox and other experts about the medical and moral dilemmas abortion providers face in the post-Roe world. Guests: Dov Fox, professor of law and director, Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics, University of San Diego School of Law Dr. Jennifer Conti, adjunct clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Stanford University Sonja Sharp, metro reporter, LA Times Dr. David Eisenberg , associate director, Division of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.6	If it's legal for a health care worker to conscientiously
0:56.0	object to providing abortion care, can a provider consciously object to denying abortion care and be
1:02.2	protected? That's the question University of San Diego law professor and bioethicist Dove Fox
1:07.2	asks in his recent New York Times op-ed, what will happen if doctors defy the law to
1:12.1	provide abortions? In the few weeks since the Supreme Court took away the constitutional right
1:16.8	to abortion and state bans have taken effect, reports have emerged of doctors delaying or denying
1:21.7	care to patients with pregnancy complications to avoid criminal charges. We look at the medical
1:26.9	and moral dilemmas they face with
1:28.5	the overturning of Roe. Stay with us. I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum. In a few weeks since the
1:41.0	Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, states have enacted a range of abortion bans,
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