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...
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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...
Scottish pro-life midwives who lost court battle to refuse to be involved in abortions described as “heroes”
By Dave Andrusko Last week NRL News Today posted a story explaining a hugely unfortunate decision in the case of two veteran Scottish midwives rendered by United Kingdom’s Supreme Court. It was an out-and-out defeat for freedom of conscience. Mary Doogan and...
Hospital Tried to Force Nurses’ Help in Abortion
By Wesley J. Smith I covered this story when it broke, but I was unaware of the details, so I think it is worth revisiting. Back in 2011, the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, NJ tried to force day surgical nurses to participate in killing fetuses. The...
No Accident that Obama Created a Firestorm with his Mandate
By Dave Andrusko http://www.twitter.com/daveha It was probably foolish, but I thought I might get a fresh perspective on the debate over abortion if I were to read an opinion piece written for Canada’s largest paper, the Globe and Mail. No such luck. Sonia Verma...
Obama’s “Compromise”: A Further Review, Part One
By Dave Andrusko “This regulation isn't some kind of weird bug in the software of Obamacare. It's not a clumsy overreach by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius or even by President Obama himself. The regulation isn't a bug or an overreach at all....
Obama’s “Compromise”: A Further Review, Part Two
By Dave Andrusko In “Obama’s ‘Compromise’: A Further Review, Part One,” I wrote about how the Obama Administration’s phony Friday “compromise” is basted in hypocrisy and marinated in politics. The President prevails only if opponents dial back their opposition because...
Obama’s “Compromise”: A Further Review, Part Three
By Dave Andrusko “Never before has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience.” -- Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York As discussed in “Obama’s...
Lawyer for Pro-Life New Jersey nurses challenges idea that accommodations have been made to meet their objections to participating in abortions
By Dave Andrusko One thing you need to remember: when pro-life health personnel are discriminated against, you will first be told it ain’t so and then told it’s been remedied even though there was nothing wrong in the first place. I apologize for missing the latest...