...Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient Interests. Carolyn McLeod, Oxford University Press (2020). © Carolyn McLeod. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198732723.001.0001 Chapters 1 to 3 show that important interests are at stake in regulating conscientious refusals...

... of prospective patients in gaining access to care over their own interests. Such prioritizing limits, in turn, the extent to which they can legitimately refuse to take on new patients because of their conscientious objections. conscientious refusals or objections fiduciaries fiduciary relationships gatekeepers...

... conscientious refusals or objections power sexism Jensen L referrals sexual harassment social support Alford C F DesAutels P Fitzgerald C whistleblowers moral values Hill Jr T E Kiss E moral judgment Card C LGBTQ people moral retooling oppression Taylor G Wildeman S moral consistency...

...Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient Interests. Carolyn McLeod, Oxford University Press (2020). © Carolyn McLeod. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198732723.001.0001 Chapter 3 focuses on the harm that conscientious refusals cause when they diminish the trust...

... are fiduciaries for their patients (normatively speaking), they therefore have a fiduciary duty of loyalty to them, and this duty prohibits them from making typical conscientious refusals because doing so jeopardizes health interests of their patients. This chapter explains why this argument works even though...

... health care in particular—that patients are merely inconvenienced rather than harmed by conscientious refusals. Chapter 2 opposes this view. Since good empirical evidence is lacking about the effects of conscientious refusals on patients, the author has to speculate about their impact, which she does...