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Secularity, abortion, assisted dying and the future of conscientious objection: modelling the relationship between attitudes.
Magelssen, Morten; Le, Nhat Quang; Supphellen, Magne.
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  • Magelssen M; Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Pb. 1130 Blindern, N-0318, Oslo, Norway. magelssen@gmail.com.
  • Le NQ; SNF Centre for Applied Research at NHH, Bergen, Norway.
  • Supphellen M; Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway.
BMC Med Ethics ; 20(1): 65, 2019 09 18.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31533715
BACKGROUND: Controversies arise over abortion, assisted dying and conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between attitudes towards these bioethical dilemmas, and secularity and religiosity. METHOD: Data were drawn from a 2017 web-based survey of a representative sample of 1615 Norwegian adults. Latent moderated structural equations modelling was used to develop a model of the relationship between attitudes. RESULTS: The resulting model indicates that support for abortion rights is associated with pro-secular attitudes and is a main "driver" for support for assisted dying and opposition to conscientious objection. CONCLUSIONS: This finding should be regarded as a hypothesis which ought to be tested in other populations. If the relationship is robust and reproduced elsewhere, there are important consequences for CO advocates who would then have an interest in disentangling the debate about CO from abortion; and for health systems who ought to consider carefully how a sound policy on CO can safeguard both patient trust in the services and the moral integrity of professionals. It is suggested that if religiosity wanes and pro-secular and pro-abortion attitudes become more widespread, support for CO might decline, putting into question whether present policies of toleration of conscientious refusals will remain acceptable to the majority.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Religión y Medicina / Actitud del Personal de Salud / Eutanasia / Negativa al Tratamiento / Aborto Inducido / Suicidio Asistido / Conciencia Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Ethics Límite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: BMC Med Ethics Asunto de la revista: ETICA Año: 2019 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Noruega Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Religión y Medicina / Actitud del Personal de Salud / Eutanasia / Negativa al Tratamiento / Aborto Inducido / Suicidio Asistido / Conciencia Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Ethics Límite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: BMC Med Ethics Asunto de la revista: ETICA Año: 2019 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Noruega Pais de publicación: Reino Unido