ABSTRACT
Lack of agency to make the best decisions for patients;Insufficient resources or non-existent resources to provide care to suitable professional standards;Witnessing poor standards of care;Practical experience of medical care clashing with ethical standards taught at medical school and doctors’ own personal ethical standards;Complicity in wrongdoing;End-of-life care decisions. Adequate funding and resourcing Increase staffing Empower doctors Develop an open and sharing workplace culture Provide support for employees Streamline NHS bureaucracy Action by doctors is heavily dependent on having a supportive culture within the workplace. Abortion in the US In May, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case concerning a Mississippi state law that would limit abortion to up to 15 weeks in the majority of cases.8 This had led to significant concern among advocates for women’s reproductive rights that, if the law is upheld, the landmark Roe vs Wade Supreme Court judgement, which has provided a constitutional right of access to abortion in the US since the 1970s, could be overturned or limited, leading to devastating effects on abortion rights across the country. The law was enacted in 2018 but was immediately blocked by the lower courts as inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent in Roe, following a challenge from the only abortion provider currently operating in the state.9 The Mississippi law is one of many recent legislative moves made in conservative US states to severely restrict women’s access to abortion.