Referring for Abortion & the Medical Right to Conscientious Objection (Bioethics Q&A, March 2023)
David Albert Jones
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2 August 2023
30 October 2025
On Tuesday 14 March, we held our occasional Expert Bioethics Panel Q&A session, in which our panellists answer donor-submitted questions on cutting edge issues over Zoom.
๐ฉ๐ปโโ๏ธโค๏ธโ๐ฉน In this video, the Panel addressed the issue of the right of medical professionals to exercise conscientious objection, answering two questions:
โ๏ธ ๐๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ?
โ๏ธ ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐บ?
The Bioethics Panellists were:
๐น Professor David Albert Jones โ Director, Anscombe Bioethics Centre
๐น Dr Pia Matthews โ Senior Lecturer on Bioethics & Medical Law, St Maryโs University, Twickenham
๐น Dr Chris Wojtulewicz โ then Education and Research Officer, Anscombe Bioethics Centre; now Dean of Philosophy, Oscott College
๐น Dr Dermot Kearney โ Consultant Cardiologist and past President of the Catholic Medical Association (UK)