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16 Health & Hum. Rts. J. 73 (2014)
Striking a Balance: Conscientious Objection and Reproductive Health Care from the Colombian Perspective

handle is hein.journals/harhrj16 and id is 271 raw text is: Health and Human Rights Journal Striking a Balance: Conscientious Objection and Reproductive Health Care from the Colombian Perspective LUISA CABAL, MONICA ARANGO OLAYA, VALENTINA MONTOYA ROBLEDO Abstract Conscientious Objection or conscientious refusal (CO) in access to reproductive health care is at the center of current legal debates worldwide. In countries such as the US and the UK, constitutional dilemmas surrounding CO in the context of reproductive health services re- veal inadequate policy frameworks for balancing CO rights with women's rights to access contraception and abortion. The Colombian Constitutional Court's holistic jurisprudence regarding CO standards has applied international human rights norms so as to not only protect women's reproductive rights as fundamental rights, but to also introduce clear limits for the exercise of CO in health care settings. This paper reviews Latin American lines of regulation in Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico City to argue that the Colombian Court's jurisprudence offers a strong guidance for future comprehensive policy approaches that aim to effectively balance tensions between CO and women's reproductive rights. LuiSA CABAL, LLB, LLM, is Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University Law School, New York, NY, USA. MONICA ARANGOL AYA, LLB, LLM, is Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights, Bogota, Colombia. VALENTINA MONTOYA ROBLEDO, LLB, MA, LLM, is Harvard Law School Kaufman Fellow and Legal Fellow for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, NY, USA. Please address correspondence to Luisa Cabal. Email: Icabali@columbia.edu. Competing interests: None declared. Copyright K 2014 Cabal, Arango Olaya, and Montoya Robledo. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distri- bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source credited. 73

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