Conscientious Objection

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Tasmania’s intimidating abortion bill

Michael Cook | 30 April 2013 |

tags: abortion, conscientious objection, Tasmania

Deregistration, heavy fines and jail terms threaten those who voice their opposition to abortion.

Italy’s conscientious doctors

Vincenzina Santoro | 03 October 2012 |

tags: abortion, conscientious objection, Italy

Up to 85 percent of gynecologists in some regions refuse to perform abortions.

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.

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: 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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