Should health workers have the right to refuse to participate in abortion?

06 July 2020

Have you accessed abortion in the UK?

Current law allows health care practitioners to object to participating in abortion. We want to know your opinions on this, and experiences of abortion in the UK more generally.

Taking part will consist of a short informal zoom/telephone call.

Keywords

• Liverpool John Moores University
• Health
• conscientiousness
• abortion
• ethics
• semi-structured interview
• Consciousness
• Liverpool John Moores University
• UK +18 participants
• health
• Interview
• NHS
• research
• law
• policy
• rights
• human rights
• reproductive rights
• womens attitudes
• transgender
• access
• conscientious objection
• abortion law
• reform
• sociology
• conscience
• philosophy
• bio-ethics
• non-binary
• feminism
• pro-choice
• pro-abortion

Ethical approval

This study has been approved by LJMU ethics committee (UREC) on the 17th of February 2020 (20/NAH/001).

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