Conscience

Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide?

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reader diary by megan.mullett, Law Students for Reproductive Justice

July 29, 2009 - 2:20pm (Print)

Can I both support a pastor’s right
to refuse to marry people and oppose a pharmacist’s right to refuse to
dispense prescriptions? Or does support of one logically require
support of the other?

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Sens. Clinton and Murray Introduce Legislation to Block New HHS Rule from Going Into Effect

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by Emily Douglas

November 20, 2008 - 12:27pm (Print)

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Patty Murray have introduced legislation that would block new Department of Health and Human Services provider conscience regulations from going into effect.
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New HHS Regs Would Hit Low-Income Women, Women of Color Hardest

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by Bethany Sousa, Center for Reproductive Rights

September 22, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

Under current law, recipients of federal money cannot force medical professionals to provide abortion or sterilization services if they object for moral or religious reasons. But proposed regulations would expand these laws at patients' expense.
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President's Committee on Bioethics Debates Provider, Patient Conscience

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by David J. Nolan, Catholics for Choice

September 16, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

As the deadline for public comment on the new Department of Health and Human Services refusal clause regulations nears, the President's Committee on Bioethics discussed how conscience relates to health care at its meeting last week.
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Roundup: Final Draft of HHS Regs Dangerously Broad and Ambiguous

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by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

August 22, 2008 - 10:13am (Print)

Final draft of HHS proposal is ambiguous and broad enough to allow doctors to refuse birth control; McCain unlikely to choose pro-choice running mate; Pastor who opposes abortion to deliver closing prayer at DNC; Telling back story behind the new Democratic abortion plank.
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