Conscience


A voice of conscience in the Kenyan media

Martyn Drakard | 20 July 2009
Leading journalist Chaacha Mwita discusses the challenge of achieving citizen power in Kenya. 

Obeying the Leviathan

Michael Cook | 18 April 2009
A post-modernist looks at conscientious objection and decides he doesn't care for it very much.

Professionals or automatons?

Cristina Alarcon | 16 April 2009
Should pharmacists have the right to act according to their consciences, or are they prescription-filling robots?

The campaign against conscience rights

Nancy Valko | 26 January 2009
American healthcare workers who oppose abortion and euthanasia could be squeezed out of their jobs.

The Filipino front in the culture wars

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 22 October 2008
The heavyweights of the global reproductive health agenda are making an all-out bid to displace the church as the conscience of the Philippines.

Respect for conscience must be a social value

Margaret Somerville | 17 October 2008
In mature Western democracies we have competing societal values, with abortion at the eye of the storm.

Forcing compliance

Michael Cook | 17 October 2008
The Australian state of Victoria has a world first: a law which forces doctors to refer women for abortion or to do it themselves -- even if they have a conscientious objection.

Doctors’ orders

Michael A. Fragoso | 16 October 2008
Attacks on conscientious objection are part of an international campaign to make abortion a basic human right.

The best get convictions; the worst get medals

Nigel Hannaford | 09 October 2008
A Canadian woman has spent nearly half of the last 14 years in jail as a prisoner of conscience. Why doesn't she have a medal?

A question of conscience

Michael Cook | 13 September 2008
Why are pro-choice activists so dismissive of freedom of conscience?

The thorny issue of politicians and conscience

John A. Gueguen, Jr | 10 June 2005
Last year's presidential campaign saw many Catholic politicians tiptoeing through a minefield of moral issues. Could it happen again?

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