Conscience Rules: Introduction
Conscience Rules: Professional Integrity
Conscience Rules: Personal Conscience
Definitions

- Conscience: An inner state or faculty linked to an awareness of moral limits and to the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
- Personal Conscience Objection: Due to sincerely held moral or religious beliefs, the desire or intent to refuse to provide a treatment or procedure that is expected by the ordinary standard of care or requested by a patient.
- Conscientious Refusal: Due to sincerely held moral or religious beliefs, the actual refusal to provide a treatment or procedure that is expected by the ordinary standard of care or requested by a patient.
Source: Galston, W. & Rogers M. (2012). Health Care Provider’s Consciences and Patients’ Needs: The Quest for Balance. The Brookings Institution.