“Strongly limited objection to San Marino”
Conscientious objection is commonly defined as a refusal on the contrary to respect an order by the authority when this is considered unfair because of one’s own ethical convictions. From a historical point of view in Europe it was with the Nuremberg trial that a wide debate on this issue was opened and all the following could be understood: extermination of more than six million people. By conscience, on the other hand, we mean the interior dimension of the human being and it is distinguished in psychological and moral conscience. And it is precisely the moral conscience that brings into being the individual’s awareness of action. Freedom of conscience is a freedom protected by many international Conventions and Declarations and by many Constitutional Charters – and also by the Declaration of Rights and Fundamental Principles of the San Marino Law – and represents one of the cardinal freedoms in democratic regimes. We live in an era of paradoxes: on the one hand society and law are compulsively pushed towards the utopia of infinite freedoms, on the other hand the legislator, in trying to favor a further freedom, can push in the direction of limiting another. : the freedom of conscience of the individual. The recent San Marino law on abortion, n. 127 of 7 September 2022, unfortunately takes a further step in the direction of the abolition of this fundamental right: not only emptying its authentic meaning, as it is severely limited, but it requires health and non-health personnel to communicate their choice regarding the conscientious objection within thirty days from the entry into force of the same law, without providing for the possibility, for personnel already in service, to overcome a very short period of conscience. It follows that the personnel and those not operating in the territory have 30 days at their disposal starting from last September 12 to communicate their decision on the matter in writing. He therefore only has time until 12 October to notify the Directorate of the Institute for Social Security and the Health Authority in writing about his choice regarding the new conscientious objection, or, for those hired, within 15 days. from entry into service. This choice can be changed at any time. We invite all those who intend to declare the right to object to the provisions of law no. 127/2022 on voluntary termination of pregnancy to do so by 12 October next year
cs joint Hospitality of Life Association and Uno di Noi Association
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