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Academics Angela Ballantyne and Janine Penfield Winters provide opposing opinions on the issue of conscientious objection in healthcare
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, s174 and the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, s46. General laws that protect rights to religious expression (eg, the Bill of Right Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993) will also apply in many employment situations and may provide for the legal right to conscientiously object to the provision of other (non-reproductive) services.
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E. Pellegrino, lecture at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 2004.
Garland A, Connors AF, Physicians' influence over decisions to forego life support. J Palliat Med 2007,10(6):1298-305.
Pellegrino E, The Physician’s Conscience, Conscience Clauses, and Religious Belief: A Catholic Perspective. Fordham Urban Law Journal 2002, 30:221–44; Wicclair MR. Conscientious Objection in Medicine. Bioethics 2002,14: 205-227
Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
