From 1989 through September 2017, Chile's highly restrictive abortion laws exposed women to victimisation and needlessly threatened their health, freedom and even lives. However, after decades of unsuccessful attempts to ...

This article aims to explain the legal regime of fundamental rights in Peru, especially the right to life, and to what extent figures such as abortion, euthanasia, or the morningafter pill restrict said right while generating ...

Conscientious Objection (CO) has a definition, a genealogy, and a normative use in liberal democracies. It has an official history, so to speak, which vindicates it as a democratic institution that guarantees people the ...

© 2014, Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud. All rights reserved. In clinical practice, the conflict due to conscientious objection arises when confronting the right of professional objection to free conscience and the ...

Medical practice implies the controversial encounter of diverse circumstances in which eventual conflicts between physicians and patients’ values as well as between physicians’ values and legal or institutional rules arise. ...

Medical practice implies the controversial encounter of diverse circumstances in which eventual conflicts between physicians and patients’ values as well as between physicians’ values and legal or institutional rules arise. ...

The present doctoral work aims to identify the performance of the values of logotheory in legal documents that deal with the practice of conscientious objection. As part of the investigation, specific objectives are ...

Doing 'good medical ethics' requires acknowledgment that it is often practised in non-ideal circumstances! In this article I present the distinction between ideal theory (IT) and non-ideal theory (NIT). I show how IT may ...