The European law that arose from these traditions was characterized by its treatment of legal institutions and processes as relatively autonomous with respect to the surrounding social, religious, and moral norms and procedures.
A survey in the U.S. revealed that if a physician has a moral objection to procedures (such as abortions for gender selection), >90% were willing to refer patients to a colleague [ 7].
Nebraska was entitled to find the existence of a consequential moral difference between the procedures.
Second, this view explains the nature of moral truth in procedural terms, and thus it implies that there are no moral facts independently of the procedure (Rawls 1980: 307).
The French College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians opposes the procedure on moral, cultural and health grounds.
Laiga's research suggests the proportion of obstetricians and gynaecologists in Lazio – the region in and around Rome – citing moral objections to the procedure has reached 91.3 per cent.
The court's refusal to recognize Nebraska's right to declare a moral difference between the procedure is a dispiriting disclosure of the illogic and illegitimacy of the court's approach to the entire case.
Italian women are being deprived of the right to an abortion, as the Vatican's influence over the country's health system results in the hiring of doctors who refuse to undertake the procedure on moral grounds, a group of the country's pro-choice doctors has warned.
(G 4 421) O'Neill (1975 , 1989 and Rawls (1989, 1999), among others, take this formulation in effect to summarize a decision procedure for moral reasoning, and I will follow them: First, formulate a maxim that enshrines your reason for acting as you propose.
For Gert, then, the point of "doing ethics" is not to come up with some nifty new theory of morality, but rather to provide a faithful descriptive and interpretive rendering of the moral rules, ideals, and decision procedures that we all share.
