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Europe and conscience protection

At the Public Discourse website, here is a report by Matthew Schmitz on a very troubling conscience proposal that will be considered by the Council of Europe on October 7, 2010. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/10/1762 The report states: “The central feature of the resolution is a call for enforcement against conscientious objectors who refuse to perform or make referrals for abortion.”

Update: Here is a report from Lifesitenews on the latest developments. The Council rejected the original proposal. The amended resolution affirms the right of conscientious objection. http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10100709.html Here is a link to a statement from the European Centre for Law and Justice, which strongly supported the right of conscientious objection,  http://www.eclj.org/Releases/Read.aspx?GUID=8c297b2f-ada7-4047-a8e4-134bb5f16fa8&s=eur and a link to Wesley Smith’s comment. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/10/09/council-of-europe-votes-to-protect-medical-conscience/ 

Here is Terry McKeegan’s report. http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1718/pub_detail.asp 

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Richard Myers

Richard S. Myers, the Vice-President of UFL, is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law, where he teaches Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, and Religious Freedom. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College and earned his law degree at Notre Dame, where he won the law school's highest academic prize. He began his legal career by clerking for Judge John F. Kilkenny of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Myers also worked for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. He taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law before joining the Ave Maria faculty. He is a co-editor of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition: Contemporary Perspectives (Catholic University of American Press, 2004) and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2007). He has also published extensively on constitutional law in law reviews and also testified before Congressional and state legislative hearings on life issues. Married to Mollie Murphy, who is also on the faculty at Ave Maria School of Law, they are the proud parents of six children - Michael, Patrick, Clare, Kathleen, Matthew, and Andrew. http://www.avemarialaw.edu/index.cfm?event=faculty.bio&pid=11705E7D4E0111010366