Table 2.
Proportion of students who agree/strongly agree with statements about conscientious objection (CO), by university type (N = 333)
| Total % |
University type, % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious | Secular | ||
| Clinicians who conscientiously object should: | |||
| Counsel patients with unwanted pregnancies on all their treatment options, including abortion | 92 | 75 | 97* |
| Refer patients eligible for a lawful abortion to a willing clinician | 91 | 76 | 95* |
| Be allowed to refuse to provide post-abortion care | 18 | 25 | 17 |
| I would use CO to avoid caring for a woman: | |||
| who wanted an abortion, no matter what her reasons | 18 | 38 | 12* |
| who wanted a lawful abortion | 18 | 39 | 12* |
| with post-abortion complications | 6 | 10 | 5 |
| The following CO regulations should be implemented in Chile: | |||
| Universities and other institutions should be able to register as COs | 27 | 52 | 20* |
| Mandatory public registration of COs | 67 | 64 | 68 |
| The following health professionals should be able to be COs: | |||
| Physicians | 83 | 97 | 79* |
| Midwives | 79 | 96 | 75* |
| Nurses | 62 | 80 | 56* |
| Pharmacists | 32 | 55 | 26* |
| Administrators | 23 | 38 | 19* |
| Nobody should be able to conscientiously object | 16 | 3 | 20* |
* Differences between students attending religious and secular universities are statistically significant (p < .05)