Breaking News
December, 2001
Illinois attempts to force referral
Permission sought to conceive embryos for tissue donation
Abortion advocates reject freedom of conscience
New Tasmanian abortion law includes protection of conscience provision
Conscientious objection respected in Quebec
Old news on an unusual condition
Wrongful birth suit dismissed in Germany
Maryland Catholic hospitals at risk
UK approves genetic culling of embryos
Boy seeking sex-change, simultaneous 'fatherhood' and 'motherhood'
Concerns raised over possible amendment to Michigan bill
Japan to allow human-animal hybrids
Wisconsin Bill would stop wrongful birth, wrongful life suits
French doctors fear suits, threaten to stop eugenic screening
Irish House passes bill that denies protection to early embryo
No fetal cells in new smallpox vaccines
Attempt to bar Christian nurse from practice fails
November, 2001
Selective foeticide
becoming common
House of Lords rejects "right to die" suit
UN agency accused of bias against pro-life obstetricians
Contradicting state policy may lead to jail in the U.K.
Euthanasia reported among 4% of Australian surgeons
Embryo experimentation approved in Singapore
Anti-terrorism
measures and medical practice
Columbian
health care workers likely to be pressured
Korean doctors` ethical guidelines raise questions
European Court ruling ghettoizes religious belief in Europe
Irish Medicine Board declares 'morning-after-pill' non-abortifacient
U.K. authority moves to suppress freedom of expression
College of Pharmacists still opposed to freedom of conscience
French Health Minister considers change to euthanasia law
Project advisor addresses Pharmacy Law Institute
Award for essay against freedom of conscience
French doctors ordered to implement law, resigned
Principle of informed consent violated by U.K. nurses
Demands for 'morning after pill' a problem for Catholic health care
Smallpox vaccine may pose moral problems
Japanese university approves destructive embryonic research
British House of Lords accepts appeal of assisted suicide case
October, 2001
Abortion
activist indicates "socio-economic" reasons for abortion
Belgian Senate Approves Assisted Suicide
UK Woman loses right-to-die case
Wal Mart sued over contraceptive coverage
Michigan bill would provide "conscience clause"
Planned Parenthood attacks freedom of conscience
Kansas Supreme Court establishes conditional duty to unborn child
Patient ordered starved to death
Medical Students for Choice oppose freedom of choice in health care
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists requires eugenic screening
Project Administration disabled by virus
New York state attacking freedom of conscience
Approval sought for made-to-order baby for marrow donation
American Society for Reproductive Medicine on sex selection
Supreme Court of Canada to hear 'wrongful birth' case
Australian parliamentary report on cloning, stem cell research
British philosopher advocates in vitro sex selection
September, 2001
California
Supreme Court to review mandatory contraception ruling
New eugenic screening test not wish to participate.
Minnesota Medical Association split on freedom of conscience
Kansas Pharmacists Association supports freedom of conscience
Teachers' group focuses on ethics, freedom of conscience in education
New York Bishops' Conference protection of conscience campaign
British government plans to accelerate provision of abortions
NARAL Pennsylvania seeks mandatory contraceptive coverage
Disabled North Carolina woman deprived of food, fluids, and antibiotics
August. 2001
English woman argues for right to assisted suicide
More forced abortions reported in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. woman coerced into abortion
Pressure increasing in favour of embryonic experimentation
Conscientious objection respected at University of Florida
Washington state demands compulsory contraceptive coverage
Man-animal hybrid embryos reported to have been formed
Compromise proposed in hospital reorganization
Australian court case illustrates dynamic of expectation
British woman seeks assisted suicide
Wrongful birth, wrongful life suits
Planned Parenthood intervenes against conscientious objector in civil suit
Court orders feeding tubes withdrawn
Alberta freedom of conscience advocate to speak at Ontario conference
Insurance coverage for contraception in the United States
Belgian proposal for euthanasia
American College of Physicians rejects assisted suicide
California court prevents starvation of patient
United Nations supports compulsory abortion in China
Canadian health minister advised to demand payment for private abortions
Legalization of euthanasia feared in United Kingdom
Hospital petitions to treat burn patient
Japan expected to approve embryo experimentation
July, 2001
Withholding food and fluids in the United Kingdom
British high school ethics course
Pope warns against "coarsening of conscience" in embryonic research, etc.
French Minister of Health contributes to normalization of euthanasia
Irish High Court rejects review of Medical Council decision
New Catholic bioethics institute launched in Canada
Columbian bishops call for conscientious objection
New terminology for cloned embryos
Eugenic screening expected by French courts
Compulsory vaccination programmes
France forces abortion upon overseas territories
California Court of Appeal rules Catholic Church must pay for contraception
Nurse testifies in U.S. Senate hearing, formally cautioned by employer
President of the Ontario Nurses Association favours conscience legislation
June, 2001
Employee
threatened with dismissal for refusing to officiate at
homosexual wedding
American Civil Liberties Union opposes freedom of conscience
Protection of conscience law proposed for Italian pharmacists
Pope notes need for conscientious objection
American Catholic hospitals instructed to abide by Church teaching on sterilization
Professor notes society 'very confused' on conscience
Website tracks relationship between corporations, researchers
Planned Parenthood misrepresents ethical obligations
Conscientious objectors in Ireland face increasing threat
Attempt to impose mandatory contraceptive coverage
World's first faculty of bioethics announced
May, 2001
Royal
Pharmaceutical Society hostile to freedom of conscience
Spanish government official attacks freedom of conscience
Catholics and Pro-lifers Being Forced Out of Ob/Gyn Profession
Archbishop Calls on Catholics to Disobey New Law
April, 2001
Pharmacists
Conscience Clause Given Stamp of Approval
Comprehensive protection proposed in Arizona
Louisiana Senate narrowly rejects coercive bill
South Korean medical association at odds with law
French minister considers euthanasia, neglects conscience
Wisconsin health care workers & pharmacists getting support
Pharmacist survey on 'conscience clause'
Mandatory abortion training suggested in New York
No Christian gynaecologists and neonatologists in Netherlands
B.C. Government wants criticism of abortionists made 'hate crime'
Ugandan bishops support conscientious objection
March, 2001
Ethics Committee Faulted
Conference on Conscience in Health Care
University of Toronto Med School cited for unethical practice, coercion
Cardinal Egan challenges New York's attack on freedom of conscience
Kentucky Conscience Bill Passes
February, 2001
Protection
for pharmacists sought in three U.S. states
Bottom-line Ethics in Pharmacy Cash vs Conscience in British Columbia
Morning After Pill Spurs Call for Conscientious Objection
Belgian pharmacist refuses to dispense MAP, condoms
Canadian M.P. continues efforts
January, 2001
Pharmacist gains in lawsuit
for wrongful dismissal
Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal suggests possibility of compromise