Balancing different views in the contexts of voluntary assisted dying, safe access zones around reproductive health clinics, and the proposed Health Legislation Amendment (Conscientious Objection) Bill.
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The following text is the de-identified and edited transcript of an invited presentation by Fiona Patten, who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2014 and 2022, and leader of the Reason Australia Party. Fiona's presentation addressed the topic of 'Balancing different views in the contexts of voluntary assisted dying, Safe Access Zones around reproductive health clinics, and the proposed Health Legislation Amendment (Conscientious Objection) Bill.' Fiona's presentation formed part of the Conference on Accommodating Plural Values in Healthcare and Healthcare Policy, which was held in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday, October 30, 2023. This conference was a key output of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant DP190101597, 'Religion, pluralism, and healthcare practice: A philosophical assessment'. Fiona's presentation was introduced by the project's principal investigator and Deputy Director of Monash Bioethics Centre, Professor Justin Oakley.
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Monash Bioethics Review provides comprehensive coverage of traditional topics and emerging issues in bioethics. The Journal is especially concerned with empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance. Monash Bioethics Review also regularly publishes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications. Produced by the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics since 1981 (originally as Bioethics News), Monash Bioethics Review is the oldest peer reviewed bioethics journal based in Australia–and one of the oldest bioethics journals in the world.
An international forum for empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance.
Includes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications.
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