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Conscientious Objection
In Henk ten Have & Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 347-348 (2021)
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Conscientious objection refers to the legal claim or moral privilege of an individual to refuse to comply with a professional obligation for conscientious, religious, or moral reasons.Author's Profile
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