Talk:Conscience Clause (medical)

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An earlier edit of mine was badly flawed, and rightly reverted. I have rewritten it. However, the original article had a major flaw: it implied that these clauses were in use in any country; and it did not refer to the reason for enacting these clauses where US state legislatures might have been expected to want to ban procedures. Pol098 12:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "return to the situation as it was before they were enacted"

The point has been made that healthcare providers like the clauses because they protect them. I had entered "without them, they would return to the situation as it was before they were enacted, and be obliged to supply lawful professional services to which they objected, subject to disciplinary or legal action for refusing."

There were objections to "return to the situation as it was before they were enacted" which has been deleted.

The point I was trying to make was that providers had been working under these rules for decades.

In "potentially be subject to disciplinary or legal action for refusing", "potentially" is redundant: "potentially suffer disciplinary or legal action for refusing" and "be subject to disciplinary or legal action for refusing" mean essentially the same.

Pol098 18:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

The point I was trying to make in my edit summary was that with any law, if it were repealed, then people would return to the situation as it was before it was enacted. That's a tautology. If you want to rewrite so as to emphasize that health providers were subject to the previous rules for decades, without sounding redundant, feel free. Catamorphism 18:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Title

Can someone redirect a search of "refusal clause" to this page? I believe that might be appropriate- from research I have done on the subject I have found that it is commonly referred to as a "refusal clause" as well. (I don't know how to do such things yet- still learning!) Smithw14 22:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)