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Conscience Clauses

Module 02 Handout - Conflicts of Interest (28K)
Handout for class 2
Keywords: Conflicts, entertainment, gifts, meals
Article/Commentary
06/22/05 AMA: Physicians Charge Pharmacists With Interference in Medical Care
Article discussing AMA's position to disallow pharmacists to refuse access to prescription drugs in the name of conscience.
APhA Pharmacists Passed a Conscience Clause for Pharmacists
4/20/99: The Ohio Pharmacists Association adopted a Conscience Clause, which passed without debate.
Keywords: Pharmacists
Campaign to Force Hospitals to Provide Abortions
From the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003. Forty-five states and the federal government protect the right of health care providers to decline involvement in abortion. Pro-abortion groups seek to abolish these legal protections.
Conscience Clauses
From the Ascension Health website
Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate
Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate Because of Beliefs, Some Refuse To Fill Birth Control Prescriptions
Whose Conscience Rules?
Boston Globe Article by Ellen Goodman on EThical issues related to Consceince Clauses
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