By Ashlynn Lemos Texas Right to Life This week, Joe Biden has officially lost his legal battle that tried to force Christian Pro-Life doctors to kill babies through abortion. Wednesday, the Biden administration chose not to appeal a federal court ruling...
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Big Victory for Medical Conscience in Norway
By Wesley J. Smith As the bioethics movement’s most prominent members write stridently in favor of stripping medical professionals of conscience rights in the world’s most respected medical journals, as the New York Times shrieks in horror at the Trump...
The “medical Conscience” civil rights movement
By Wesley J. Smith Until recently, healthcare was not culturally controversial. Medicine was seen as primarily concerned with extending lives, curing diseases, healing injuries, palliating symptoms, birthing babies, and promoting wellness—and hence, as a sphere in...
Big Victory for Medical Conscience in Norway
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D. As the bioethics movement’s most prominent members write stridently in favor of stripping medical professionals of conscience rights in the world’s most respected medical journals, as the New York Times shrieks in horror at the Trump...
Protecting nurses’ conscience: a non-negotiable in the final FY 2018 spending bill
By Rep. Diane Black (R-TENN.) and Sandra Rojas Editor's Note. This first appeared in The Hill. “I solemnly swear to do no harm.” We took this oath more than 40 years ago when we became nurses. We chose this career—more accurately, this calling—because it was the...
Take Action: Conscience Protection for Doctors and Nurses
No medical professional should ever be coerced or bullied to participate in an abortion, or have his or her job threatened for not participating in an abortion. And when it does happen, these health care providers need legal protections and remedies like those found...
New Hampshire Medical-Conscience Bill
By Wesley J. Smith The question of “medical conscience,” that is, whether doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and the like can be forced to participate in medical procedures or provide services with which they have a religious or moral objection, is heating up. Now, New...
Court Ruling a Hopeful Sign for Pro-Life Nurses, Docs in Illinois
By Jay Hobbs An Illinois nurse who was muscled out of her job because she wouldn’t participate in abortions is now one step closer to fighting her case before a jury of her peers. Sandra (Mendoza) Rojas had worked as a Winnebago County public health nurse for 18 years...
Arizona Gov. signs Conscience Protection Bill
Prevents discrimination against those who won’t participate in assisted suicide By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through August 25. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the...
U.S. Senate Democrats Take Aim at Conscience Protections
Bill would override longstanding conscience rights provisions on abortion WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democrats yesterday sought to advance the so-called “Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act” (S. 2578), a sweeping bill that, if enacted, would...