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Originally Posted by Slava
So give me a case where it applies then?
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The big one is non medically necessary abortions. A doctor could refuse to perform the abortion and recommend the patient to another doctor would be one. I'm sure this already happens all the time, and it's well within pretty much every ethics framework I've seen. It also wouldn't be harmful to the patient as a Doctor against abortion wont be good at them and probably not qualified to perform them anyways and as such would have to refer them for ethics reasons anyways.
Another one would be something like Female Circumcision. This isn't really an issue today as it's not a government funded procedure and is considered medically harmful and therefore ethically wrong and exempt anyways, but if it did become government funded and supported procedure after a lot of pressure from a religious group, it would allow you to refuse to perform the service.