Health Care Providers' Religious Objections to Medical Treatment [electronic resource] : Legal Issues Related to Religious Discrimination in Employment and Conscience Clause Provisions
- Corporate Author:
- Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
- Published:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2010.
- Physical Description:
- 14 pages : digital, PDF file
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- Summary:
- Discusses situations in which religious objections may be raised by health care employees, and examines legal protections for individuals with religious and moral objections to their employment duties offered by the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Federal conscience clauses. Analyzes protections and how they may affect health care providers who have religious objections to medical procedures.
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- ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection
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- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Sept. 2012). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
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