Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare

About the event:

Alberto Giubilini and David Albert Jones each adopted a position on conscientious objection (CO) contrary to the one that he in fact holds. David A. Jones, who is a defender of a right to conscientious objection in healthcare, made the case against it. Alberto Giubilini, who is against a right to conscientious objection in healthcare, made the case in favour of it (12 October 2020).

Alberto Giubilini (Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) and David Jones (Director, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre).

Video of the debate & follow-up blog post

The debate is available to watch on YouTube (transcript available on YouTube).

After the event, Alberto and David co-wrote a blog post in which they evaluate each other's arguments in relation to their strengths and how they were presented. Read the blog post on the Practical Ethics in the News blog (20 October 2020).