 In controversial areas such as abortion and assisted suicide, medical professionals may not wish to offer certain services for moral or philosophical reasons.If enough practitioners opt out as a result of conscience, a right granted by conscience clause statutes in many jurisdictions (see Conscientious objection to abortion and Conscience clause in medicine in the United States), patients may not have any means of having their own positive rights fulfilled.Such was the case of Janet Murdock, a Montana woman who could not find any physician to assist her suicide in 2009.