conscientious objection

Question 1

consciensious objection

Answer 1

-refusal to participate
-based of violation of one’s self morals

Question 2

consiencious absolutism

Answer 2

Health care professionals have no
obligation to perform ANY
action that is contrary to their
conscience

Question 3

incompatibility thesis

Answer 3

Any refusal to provide legal and professionally permitted services within the scope of
a clinician’s competence is
incompatible with
professional obligations to
patients

Question 4

conscience clause

Answer 4

provides legal protection for individual
pharmacists to refuse to dispense contraceptives, while still requiring the
pharmacy to facilitate meeting the patient’s need. There are advantages
and disadvantages to the patient as a result of the conscience clause

Question 5

relationship of ethical principles to conscientious objection

Answer 5

-fidelity
-veracity
-autonomy
-beneficience
-nonmaleficience

Question 6

Describe how moral status affects ethical decision-making

Answer 6

Moral status determines who is owed moral obligations and to
what degree. Moral status can help determine the prioritization
of ethical principles in decision‐making

Question 7

sentience theory

Answer 7

Sentience is consciousness in the form of feeling,
especially the capacity to feel pain and pleasure and to suffer, as
distinguished from consciousness as perception or thought.
Having the capacity of sentience is a sufficient condition of moral
status

Question 8

moral agency theory

Answer 8

Moral status derives from the capacity to act as a
moral agent, the ability to judge right and wrong.

Question 9

cognitive theory

Answer 9

Individuals have moral status because they are able to
reflect on their lives through their cognitive capacities and are self‐
determined by their beliefs in ways that incompetent humans and
non‐human animals are not

Question 10

human propperties theory

Answer 10

-All humans have full moral status and only humans
have that status
-include embryos