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Faith, Reason and Bioethics
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
While Belgium followed its neighbor and legalized euthanasia, similar legislation was recently defeated in Britain by a coalition of pro-life and palliative ...

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March, 2007

Conscience rights at risk: Catholic leaders say legislative ...
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Although a proposal to protect the conscience rights of health care providers and institutions that don't want to participate in certain ...

More on Conscience
By Rob Vischer
The Los Angeles Times provides an overview of the recent controversies in Minneapolis over Muslims' claims of conscience in the workplace.

21-Mar-07 - Jews and Catholics Defend Conscience, Stress Need for ...
JERUSALEM, MARCH 20, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Jewish and Catholic delegations dedicated to improving relations between the two religions concluded a recent ..

Jews and Catholics defend conscience
Indian Catholic - New Delhi,India
... and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel's Delegation for Relations with the Catholic Church considered "The Freedom of Religion and Conscience and Its Limits. ...

A right conscience
Indian Catholic - New Delhi,India
Dr. José María Simón Castellví, president of the World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations, attended the congress on "The Christian Conscience ...

A Conscience Decision
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
ROME, MARCH 20, 2007 (Zenit) - Catholics involved in politics should follow their own conscience, but in doing so they need to be well informed. ...

Bishop Fisher on Conscience and Authority: "Struggling to Recover ...
By Zenit
The theme of the conference was "The Christian Conscience in Support of the Right to Life." * * * The moral conscience in ethics and the contemporary crisis of authority 1. The voice of conscience 1.1 What conscience is not It might ...

Accommodating Conscience
By Rob Vischer
Let me start by saying that I am a big believer in freedom of conscience. However, to a large extent, one has to be willing to suffer the consequences of one's moral convictions. The law should probably make reasonable accommodations, ...

Report: Vatican asks protection for doctors’ conscience rights
By JS
The Pontifical Academy for Life has called for an amendment to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, to include a “conscience clause” for health-care personnel who will not participate in procedures that offend against the dignity of ...

A Right Conscience
Interview With Director of International Medical Association ROME, MARCH 20, 2007 (Zenit) - Conscientious ...

Catholic Church Asks UN for Medical Conscience Clause on Abortion
LifeNews.com - Helena,MT,USA
The Vatican (LifeNews.com) -- The Catholic Church is asking the United Nations to protect the conscience rights of doctors and other medical personnel who ...

Vatican asks protection for doctors' conscience rights
Catholic World News - USA
19, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The Pontifical Academy for Life has called for an amendment to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, to include a “conscience clause” ...

Is the Conscience Respected?
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
St. Thomas More is recognized in our time as one of the great defenders of human dignity and the rights of human conscience. We are all familiar with the ...

Conscience more than a GPS: Bishop Fisher (Australia)
By Sotto Voce(Sotto Voce)
Speaking prior to a major international conference in Rome on Christian conscience and the right to life, Sydney Bishop Anthony Fisher said that conscience is not like a new car's street navigator telling a driver to turn here or stop ...

Is the Conscience Respected?
An Overview by Carl Anderson NEW YORK, MARCH 19, 2007 (Zenit)
Here is a text by Carl Anderson, vice president ...

Doctors decide to stay
Regina Leader-Post (subscription) - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
SASKATOON -- Two doctors who handed in their resignation over restrictions on their practice at Humboldt's Catholic hospital are staying on the job. ...

Conscience at the Cash Register
By Rob Vischer
Another skirmish in the conscience wars: some Muslim cashiers at Target are refusing to handle pork. I think that this is a front-page story only because of recent controversies involving pharmacists, taxi drivers, and bus drivers. ...

Jobs safe for Humboldt hospital staff
StarPhoenix, Canada - Mar 9, 2007
There should be no job losses or pay cuts for staff working at Humboldt's St. Elizabeth's Hospital when the facility switches from Catholic to public ...

Humboldt hospital goes public
StarPhoenix, Canada - Mar 8, 2007
The Saskatoon Health Region will take over control of Humboldt's Catholic-run hospital, Saskatchewan's health minister said Wednesday.

Humboldt Hospital to be Publicly Run
Saskatoonhomepage.ca, Canada - Mar 7, 2007
Discussions are set to begin immediately with St Elizabeth's Hospital Board for a timely transition from a Catholic facility to a public one. ...

Church to stop running hospital
Regina Leader-Post (subscription) - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
SASKATOON -- Saskatchewan's Health Minister said Wednesday the Saskatoon Health Region will take over control of Humboldt's Catholic-run hospital. ...  

Humboldt hospital goes public
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
The Saskatoon Health Region will take over control of Humboldt's Catholic-run hospital, Saskatchewan's health minister said Wednesday.

Birth control coverage legislation causes church ‘grave concern’
Catholic Sentinel - Portland,OR,USA
The Oregon Catholic Conference and an association of evangelical churches are teaming up in an attempt to add a conscience clause, but are meeting ...

No Exceptions
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA
"We are free to exercise our conscience, but should government choose to ignore or disregard our advice or counsel, we must never withdraw our services in ...

Humboldt's Catholic hospital switching to public control
CBC Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan,Canada
The plan will also place the existing St. Elizabeth's Hospital, now owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corp., under public control by the end of 2007 ...

Christian Conscience on the Critical List
Zenit News Agency - Rome,Italy 4 March
The issues involved in this area were examined by the Pontifical Academy for Life, in a congress entitled "The Christian Conscience in Support of the Right ...  

Clothing with a conscience Dressing 'cruelty-free' doesn't have to ...
Eagle Tribune - North Andover,MA,USA
By Emily Young , Staff Writer. North of Boston image consultant Ginger Burr makes a silent statement every morning while getting dressed for work - her ...

Christian Conscience on the Critical List
Zenit News Agency - Rome,Italy
27 report in the National Post newspaper, St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, decided to stop performing tubal ligations. ...

Doctrine must not dictate
Regina Leader-Post (subscription) - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
Saskatchewan's public smoking ban is a good example. Many bar and hotel owners bitterly opposed it, arguing that it infringed their right to manage their ...

'Conscience clause for journalists' call as union prepares to give ...
HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk - UK
A conscience clause for journalists and improved media self-regulation are the targets for the National Union of Journalists as it puts pressure on the ... See all stories on this topic

Hospital controversy fires up Humboldt rally
CBC Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan,Canada
Humboldt city council passed a resolution in January calling on to Catholic authorities and Saskatchewan Health to make the new hospital a publicly run ...

Judge allows California challenge to conscience clause law over ...
American Medical News (subscription) - USA
The Weldon Amendment, tucked into the 2005 federal health, education and labor appropriations package, extends "conscience" protections to hospitals and ...

February, 2007

Hospital rally set for Humboldt
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
The 95-year-old St. Elizabeth's Hospital is owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corporation and run by a board of community and church representatives ...

Emergency contraception bill fails but might be back
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
Supporters of the bill tried unsuccessfully in the House Health and Human Services Committee to remove a "conscience clause" from the measure. ...

Saskatchewan residents plan rally over role of church in hospital
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The residents say they have "serious reservations" after a controversy last year when the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corporation stopped providing ...

Hospital's future tied to poll
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
... make the final decision on whether a planned new hospital in the city should continue to be affiliated with the Catholic church or be made fully public. ...

Local municipalities favour public hospital, mayor says
Regina Leader-Post (subscription) - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
Meanwhile, two doctors who resigned over the limits Catholic health care principles placed on their

Conscience and Objective Truth
By Rob Vischer
The validity of a conscience claim cannot turn on the truth of the view contained therein. Aquinas taught that even the erroneous conscience must be obeyed -- not to ... Our focus should be on correcting the erroneous conscience through ...

'Reasons of Conscience' and the HPV Vaccine
Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - Princeton,NJ,USA
Parents have been permitted to opt out of vaccinating their daughters "for reasons of conscience, including religious beliefs." What reasons of conscience ...

 GPs to request conscience opt-out over gay adoption
Inspire Magazine - Worthing,West Sussex,UK
A Bedfordshire GP has launched a campaign urging the Health Secretary to ensure that GPs will be given a conscience 'opt out' in the new Sexual Orientations ...

Eating with a conscience
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
The large print is in deference of the boomers' aging eyes but the recycled paper and organics are for their conscience. "In 2006, food became political," ...

January, 2007

Humboldt doesn't want Catholic-run hospital
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
Calls to the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corp. and the Catholic diocese were not immediately returned. The Saskatoon Health Region declined to comment.

 New Sask. hospital shouldn't be Catholic-run, Humboldt council says
CBC Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan,Canada
St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Humboldt, Sask. is owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corporation. The ban split the community, with some supporting it ... See all stories on this topic

Pharmacists’ Right to Refuse to Dispense Prescriptions Based on ...
The Protection of Conscience Project. Available at: http://www.conscience. laws.org. Accessed January 4, 2006. 4. Policy H-5.995 of the AMA House of ...

Humboldt hospital could lose funding
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
... St. Elizabeth's is owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corporation, which in turn is owned by the province's Catholic bishops.

 Religious protection a worthy idea
B.C. Catholic Newspaper - Vancouver,Canada
... A Saskatchewan nurse was fined by the nursing association for protesting against abortion ... An Ontario Catholic school was ordered by a judge to permit a student ...

 More Waiting For Tubal Ligation Decision
980 CJME News Talk Radio - Regina,Sasketchewan,Canada
Elizabeth Hospital in Humboldt, and the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corporation, is still working on what action, or no action, they'll take in regards to the ...

Sask. doctors resign over tubal ligation policy
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,BC,Canada
... St. Elizabeth's, which is owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corp. but receives public funding, has been a source of controversy ... See all stories on this topic

Protect patient rights
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
... The hospital is owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corporation, which is in turn owned by the province's Catholic bishops. ...

 Doctors rally for human rights
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
... The hospital, which is owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corp. and run by Roman Catholic bishops and nuns, receives public funding. ...

Catholic health-care debate centre stage in Humboldt
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
... The current St. Elizabeth's hospital is owned by the Saskatchewan Catholic Health Corp., which has an affiliation agreement with the health authority. ...

 Canadian Catholic News: Catholic hospital’s sterilization policy ...
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
19 after extensive discussion by the Saskatoon Health Region, the St. Elizabeth's Hospital board, the Humboldt physician group, the Saskatchewan Catholic ...