Conscience

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An Esther moment

Peter Saunders | 14 June 2013 |

tags: conscience, conscientious objection, Elizabeth II, same-sex marriage

In the 60th year of her reign, Queen Elizabeth II will soon be asked to give royal assent to same-sex marriage. Is this a violation of her coronation oath?

What lies beyond conscience?

Michael Cook | 25 September 2012 |

tags: abortion, conscience, conscientious objection

Respect for conscience and conscientious objection is being eroded in the medical profession.

Those “deeply personal” political decisions

Alma Acevedo | 11 September 2012 |

tags: 2012 elections, conscience, tolerance

The hoary political cliché “I’m personally opposed, but…” might mean tolerance. More often it means indifference, hesitation, deceit, or cowardice.

Personally opposed, but…

Stephen J. Heaney | 14 March 2012 |

tags: conscience

Politicians should not allow policies which they know to be wrong and disastrous to steamroller their consciences.

A talk in Tehran

Peter Baehr | 10 June 2011 |

tags: conscience, freedom, Iran

Academic conferences can be opportunities for spreading the gospel of freedom of conscience.

Emergency plan overturned

Cristina Alarcon | 06 June 2011 |

tags: conscience, morning after pill, pharmacists

An Illinois court has struck down a 2005 measure that would force pharmacists to provide the morning after pill.

Have US conscience clause protections been eviscerated?

James S. Cole | 30 November 2010 |

tags: conscience, conscientious objection

An American nurse who was forced to participate in a late-term abortion has effectively nowhere she can lodge a grievance. 

An unwavering beacon of truth

Daniel Seward | 10 September 2010 |

tags: conscience, John Henry Newman, moral relativism

The key to Newman's life is his steadfast conviction that the first obligation of conscience is to seek out the truth, no matter what the cost.

Who can heal a guilty conscience?

Aaron Kheriaty | 25 March 2010 |

tags: conscience, psychiatry, sin

Despite efforts to reduce conscience to conditioning, guilt persists, and science is powerless before it.

A voice of conscience in the Kenyan media

Martyn Drakard | 19 July 2009 |

tags: conscience, Kenya

Leading journalist Chaacha Mwita discusses the challenge of achieving citizen power in Kenya. 

Obeying the Leviathan

Michael Cook | 17 April 2009 |

tags: conscience, conscientious objection, philosophy, Stanley Fish

A post-modernist looks at conscientious objection and decides he doesn't care for it very much.

Professionals or automatons?

Cristina Alarcon | 15 April 2009 |

tags: conscience, conscientious objection, pharmacists

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 |

tags: Barack Obama, conscience, conscientious objection, FOCA

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 | 21 October 2008 |

tags: abortion, conscience, conscientious objection, Philippines

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 |

tags: abortion, Canada, conscience, conscientious objection

In mature Western democracies we have competing societal values, with abortion at the eye of the storm.

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