{
  "id": 12746,
  "url": "http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/52/8/525?rss=1",
  "title": "Pragmatic defence of the register system: strengthening Clarkes consequentialist case for managing conscientious objection",
  "summary": "Introduction The debate over conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare remains deeply polarised, often framed as a clash between professional obligations and individual moral integrity. In their consequentialist defence of permitting CO, Steve Clarke proposes a region-based register of non-objecting professionals as a mechanism to minimise reliance on referrals—what they aptly term a ‘fight without fighting’ approach. This commentary supports Clarke’s core argument but s",
  "authors": "Boretti, A.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T07:45:20.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "x-journal-of-medical-ethics-bmj",
  "source_name": "Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)",
  "source_homepage": "https://jme.bmj.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12746",
  "original_url": "http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/52/8/525?rss=1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}