Conscientious Objection

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Contraceptives mandate would make cowards of us all

Carolyn Moynihan | 11 November 2011 |

tags: conscientious objection, contraception, religious liberty

A White House edict tells us to ignore our conscience when we go to work. Bernie Madoff should ask for a retrial.

In Italy, gain and loss in the struggle for life

Josephine Quintavalle | 09 November 2011 |

tags: abortion tourism, conscientious objection, pregnancy help centers

The abortion rate has halved in 15 years, but there is a disturbing new trend.

Where is the worst place in the world to be a doctor?

Michael Cook | 20 September 2011 |

tags: conscientious objection, euthanasia, Netherlands

At least in Niger and Afghanistan, doctors are supposed to save lives, not take them. Not so in the Netherlands.

A tough call

Cristina Alarcon | 12 February 2011 |

tags: abortion, conscientious objection, pharmacists

Does conscience protection excuse a health professional from providing after-abortion care?

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. 

‘We insist: leave your conscience at the door’

Cristina Alarcon | 20 August 2010 |

tags: conscientious objection, morning after pill, pharmacists

Pharmacists dispense advice to a colleague who will not sell the morning after pill.

Plan C, for conscience

Cristina Alarcon | 19 July 2010 |

tags: conscientious objection, morning after pill, pharmacists

One American state has thought better of its policy to browbeat pharmacists into selling the morning after pill.

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: conscience, conscientious objection, FOCA, Obama

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.

A question of conscience

Michael Cook | 13 September 2008 |

tags: abortion, conscience, conscientious objection, Victoria

Why are pro-choice activists so dismissive of freedom of conscience?