Religion Medical Treatment Refusal

Conscience and Religious …

https://www.hhs.gov/conscience/conscience-protections/index.html

Conscience protections apply to health care providers who refuse on religious or moral grounds to perform or assist in the performance of certain health care services. ... (42 U.S.C. 1396s(c)(2)(B)(ii)), and mental health treatment (42 U.S.C. 290bb …

How religion can interfere with medical treatment | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/health/religion-medical-treatment/index.html

Seventh-day Adventists’ beliefs about medical care made headlines in 2014 when a British couple, Nkosiyapha and Virginia Kunene, pleaded guilty to manslaughter …

Some patients believe God wants them to suffer.

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/some-patients-believe-god-wants-them-suffer-how-respond

Timothy M. Smith. For centuries, medicine approached relieving suffering as a component of attending to health. Physicians today, however, face a competing …

What the new religious exemptions law means for your …

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-the-new-religious-exemptions-law-means-for-your-health-care

Addressing a Patient's Refusal of Care Based on …

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2007/1101/p1393.html

The basic ethical principle involved in the scenario is the respect for patient autonomy. This principle is protected even if she is considered to be in danger because …

Do Patients Have the Right to Refuse …

https://www.verywellhealth.com/do-patients-have-the-right-to-refuse-treatment-2614982

That means parents cannot invoke their right to religious freedom to refuse treatment for a child. Threat to the Community . A person's refusal of medical …

Refusal of Medical Treatment on Religious Grounds

https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS99/rpt/olr/htm/99-R-0180.htm

There are a number of provisions of state law that allow parents or minors to refuse certain medical treatment or health screenings for religious purposes. A person …

Most states' child abuse and neglect laws …

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/12/most-states-allow-religious-exemptions-from-child-abuse-and-neglect-laws/

Most states allow religious exemptions from child abuse and neglect laws. By Aleksandra Sandstrom. All states have laws prohibiting child abuse and neglect. But …

Autonomy, religious values, and refusal of lifesaving …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1941952/

The principal question of this paper is: Why are religious values special in refusal of lifesaving medical treatment? This question is approached through a critical examination …

Parents' refusal of medical treatment based on religious …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15614259/

When parents apply religious or cultural beliefs concerning spiritual healing, faith healing, or preference for prayer over traditional health care for children, concerns develop. ...