Conscience and competing liberty claims

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dc.contributor.authorMirkes, Renéeen_US
dc.contributor.authorMorse, Edward A.en_US
dc.contributor.cuauthorMorse, Edward A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-27T13:30:48Z
dc.date.available2014-06-27T13:30:48Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.date.monthSpringen_US
dc.date.year2013en_US
dc.description.abstractSome treatment requests from gay patients seriously conflict with the religious or moral beliefs of their respective medical providers. Not all legal solutions to these disputes serve the common good. Therefore, this article proposes that state healthcare conscience protection statutes provide the most effective way to resolve these liberty conflicts and to serve the medical needs of all patients. Part one of this manuscript showcases four clinical scenarios that illustrate how a clash of liberty claims between homosexual patients and their respective clinicians could play out within today's hea/thcare setting. Part two describes the centrifugal legal forces that are shaping judicial opinion to favor sexual liberty interests over religious conscience concerns. Part three argues for a tri-phasic political solution. We encourage healthcare providers: (1) to present their state legislators with a conscience primer-reasons why, as legislative guardians of the common good, they need to care about conscience protection for healthcare professionals; (2) to prevail upon their legislators to sponsor and enact robust state health care conscience protections; and (3) to dialogue with the gay community and their advocates, making the case that, first, diversity of the marketplace is the most effective way to match the diverse needs of all patients and, second, a dialogical, rather than a coercive, method of accessing care is the best way to serve the good of all.en_US
dc.description.issue1en_US
dc.description.pages23-29en_US
dc.description.volume29en_US
dc.identifier.citationRenée Mirkes & Edward A. Morse, Conscience and Competing Liberty Claims, 29 Ethics & Med.: An Int'l J. Bioethics 23 (2013).en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/55766
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dc.identifier.wcihttp://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2006065427/
dc.program.unitSchool of Lawen_US
dc.subject.fastMedical careen_US
dc.subject.fastMedical ethicsen_US
dc.subject.fastFreedom of religionen_US
dc.subject.fastGaysen_US
dc.titleConscience and competing liberty claimsen_US
dc.title.workEthics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethicsen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.url.fasthttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/01013753en_US
dc.url.fasthttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/01014081
dc.url.fasthttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/00934030
dc.url.fasthttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/00939255
dc.url.link1http://cuhsl.creighton.edu/login?url=http://kc7za5wx4c.search.serialssolutions.com/?sid=Refworks%3A&charset=utf-8&__char_set=utf8&genre=article&aulast=MIRKES&auinit=S.R.&title=Ethics%20%26%20Medicine%3A%20An%20International%20Journal%20of%20Bioethics&date=2013&volume=29&pages=23-39&issue=1&issn=0266688X&atitle=Conscience%20and%20Competing%20Liberty%20Claims&spage=23&au=MIRKES%2CSISTER%20R.&au=MORSE%2CEDWARD%20A.&en_US
dc.url.link2http://clic.creighton.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=ocm60624206
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