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Biuletyn Stowarzyszenia Absolwentów i Przyjaciół Wydziału Prawa Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego

Vol. 19 No. 21 (2) (2024)

Articles

Contemporary Challenges to the Right to Conscientious Objection

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32084/bsawp.9038  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2024-11-13

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyse selected contemporary challenges to the right to conscientious objection. It does not aim to exhaustively list all current issues related to the problem of conscientious objection, but to highlight the importance of examining this issue in the context of developments in areas that touch on the nature of human life, fundamental values, human dignity, morality and justice. It emphasises the need to reflect on significant scientific advances and technological developments which, by their nature and orientation, become subject to the exercise of the right to conscientious objection. While the question of the exercise of conscientious objection initially focused on the dialectic of natural and positive law, it was later reduced to the refusal of armed military service. Today, it is again a broad scope that can also encompass issues of medicine, biotechnology, healthcare, pedagogy, information technology and other sectors of society. In parallel with the development of sciences, the results of which will be accompanied by questions of value, increasing demands will be placed on the development of an appropriate legal framework. At the same time, analysis and synthesis in the field of conscientious objection is a service to the human person, human dignity and freedom of conscience and religion, which is the irrevocable duty of legal science. It is also a service to the social good, reconciliation and cooperation.

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