Ryan Anderson provides a brief review of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) from the prolife perspective in Protected in Law, Cared for in Life. His key concerns deal with the Act’s apparent inclusion of abortion as healthcare for funding purposes and the failure to include protection of conscience provisions for healthcare […]
Category: Conscience protection
Here is a link to an encouraging story from LifeNews.com about a recent poll of British medical students that finds them in favor of conscience rights. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/07/19/poll-british-med-students-back-abortion-conscience-rights/ Richard M.
In 2007, Caitlin E. Borgmann, another former Center for Reproductive Rights lawyer turned law professor, established the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog. The blog contains this description of its purpose and scope: Welcome to the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog, a member of the Law Professor Blogs network. This blog aims to provide resources, news, and information […]
Marie Smith, wife of Congressman Chris Smith, runs a remarkable organization, the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI). PNCI coordinates efforts among members of democratically-elected legislatures – collectively known as parliamentarians – to advance respect for the inherent value, worth, and inviolable dignity of every human being from fertilization until natural death. The PNCI website […]
The Spring 2011 issue of Ms. Magazine has an article on conscience rights entitled “Treatment Denied.” According to the article, substandard care is becoming rampant in the US because of protections for conscience. I haven’t seen the full text of the article yet. Most such access claims are greatly inflated. For example, in the Storman’s […]
Here is a LifeNews report on the Obama Administration’s defense of its position on conscience rights. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/10/obama-admin-defends-dropping-doctors-conscience-protections/ Richard M.
Here is a link to an article by Matt Bowman (of the Alliance Defense Fund) on the latest developments on conscience rights. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43307 Richard M.
The Ave Maria Law Review (Vol. 9; Issue 1)(2010) has just published a symposium on “The Future of Rights of Conscience in Health Care.” The symposium grew out of a conference that Lynn Wardle (BYU) and I organized. The conference was generously supported by University Faculty for Life and was also sponsored by the J. Reuben […]
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recent essays on conscience
Here are two recent essays on conscience. One (The Progressive Case for Conscience Protection) is by Rob Vischer on The Public Discourse website. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/03/2915 The other (ACLU Has Major Misunderstanding of Abortion Conscience Law) is by Matt Bowman. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/09/aclu-has-major-misunderstanding-of-abortion-conscience-law/ Richard M.
Here is a link to Catholic U law professor Mark Rienzi’s recent essay on conscience. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/03/2854 This essay is based on a longer article, which I have mentioned before. See http://uffl.org/blog/?p=491 This essay provides a good summary of his argument. Rienzi argues that Roe and Casey, with their emphasis on autonomy arguments, provide support for a right to conscience. Richard […]