Medical conscience clause in Ohio budget bill serves no purpose, health experts say
cleveland.com: Mark Aulisio, the Susan E. Watson Professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics, noted that many hospitals added a conscience clause to their list of ethics during the 1970s, when patients began to ask to have life sustaining treatment withdrawn. Lawsuits involving caregivers who decline care for ethical reasons usually center on hot-button issues such as abortion or prescriptions for the morning-after pill, he said.