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Recent Postings: 2001

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31 December, 2001
Illinois attempts to force referral

28 December, 2001
Permission sought to conceive embryos for tissue donation

24 December, 2001
Abortion advocates reject freedom of conscience 

22 December, 2001
Conference:  "Pluralism, Religion and Public Policy," 9-11 October, 2002
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

21 December, 2001
New Tasmanian abortion law includes protection of conscience provision

20 December, 2001
Conscientious objection respected in Quebec 

Project News Release: Draft Bill Lacks Conscience Protection, Erodes Trial by Jury

Boy seeking sex-change, simultaneous 'fatherhood' and 'motherhood'

UK approves genetic culling of embryos

Maryland Catholic hospitals at risk

Wrongful birth suit dismissed in Germany

Old news on an unusual condition

19 December, 2001
Project Submission on  Proposed Assisted Human Reproduction Act (Canada)

Submission to the All-Party Committee on the Irish Constitution re-configured and re-posted for faster downloading

18 December, 2001
Project Letter to the Editor (Globe and Mail) 18 December, 2001

17 December, 2001
Conference: "Religious Values and Legal Dilemmas in Bioethics," 28-29 January, 2002 Fordham University, New York, New York, USA

Euthanasia in Switzerland

10 December, 2001
Chinese hospital workers divided over attempts to kill abortion survivor (Heilongjiang province,China, April-May 2001)

8 December, 2001
Concerns raised over possible amendment to Michigan bill

Japan to allow human-animal hybrids

7 December, 2001
Attempt to bar Christian nurse from practice fails

No fetal cells in new smallpox vaccines

Irish House passes bill that denies protection to early embryo

French doctors fear suits, threaten to stop eugenic screening

Wisconsin Bill would stop wrongful birth, wrongful life suits

5 December, 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

New link- Medical Journal of Australia

15 November, 2001
Irish Medicine Board declares 'morning-after-pill' non-abortifacient

14 November, 2001
Award for essay against freedom of conscience

College of Pharmacists still opposed to freedom of conscience

French health minister considers legalizing euthanasia

French doctors ordered to implement law, resigned

Project advisor addresses Pharmacy Law Institute

12 November, 2001
Principle of informed consent violated by U.K. nurses

New link - -Catholic Medical Students' Association of Chicago

Demands for 'morning after pill' a problem for Catholic health care

Smallpox vaccine may pose moral problems 

Japanese university approves destructive embryonic research

Freedom of Conscience and the Needs of the Patient

4 November, 2001
US petitions re: federal legislation

3 November, 2001
Michigan House Bill 5158

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

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

California Supreme Court to review mandatory contraception ruling

New eugenic screening test

Minnesota Medical Association split on freedom of conscience

Kansas Pharmacists Association supports freedom of conscience

14 September, 2001
New York Bishops' Conference protection of conscience campaign

Teachers' group focuses on ethics, freedom of conscience in education  [New Link]

13 September, 2001
Euthanasia in Switzerland

British government plans to accelerate provision of abortions

More DC Medics Say They Were Forced to Have Abortions

News Release: Appeal to Muslim Physicians for American Disaster Relief

Slide Show - Introducing the Protection of Conscience Project

NARAL Pennsylvania seeks mandatory contraceptive coverage

Pro-life nurse fired

Disabled North Carolina woman deprived of food, fluids, and antibiotics

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

22 August, 2001
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

20 August, 2001
Conscientious Objectors: Canaries in the Ethical Mineshaft

Do it anyway: Canadian workers are being compelled to violate their own beliefs

19 August, 2001
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

Withholding food and fluids in the United Kingdom

31 July, 2001
Edmonton Hospitals Suspected of Euthanasia (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) (2001)

28 July, 2001
British High School Ethics Course

Pope warns against "coarsening of conscience" in embryonic research, etc.

French Minister of Health contributes to normalization of euthanasia

Negotiated Settlement with Pharmacist - ABC Health Service Agency (Kansas, U.S.A.) (2001)

Letter to the Editor, Pharmacy Practice (July 2001)

Irish High Court rejects review of Medical Council decision

20 July, 2001
Columbian bishops call for conscientious objection

New terminology for cloned embryos

Eugenic screening expected by French courts

Missouri House Bill 762 (Contraceptive Insurance Coverage)

New Catholic bioethics institute launched in Canada

11 July, 2001
Assisted Suicide: What Role for Nurses? (USA) (2000)

Compulsory vaccination programmes (USA)

Legal Assistance (USA)

France forces abortion upon overseas territories

10 July, 2001
Project letter to the Editor- Pharmacy Practice

5 July, 2001
President of the Ontario Nurses Association favours conscience legislation

Nurse testifies in U.S. Senate hearing, formally cautioned by employer

California Court of Appeal rules Catholic Church must pay for contraception

4 July, 2001
Project Letter to the Editor, The Ottawa Citizen

28 June, 2001
American federal protection of conscience laws

27 June, 2001
MD's, Pharmacists should follow conscience (Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, June 2001)

New Links:

26 June, 2001
Attempt to impose mandatory contraceptive coverage

Employee threatened with dismissal for refusing to officiate at  homosexual wedding

American Civil Liberties Union opposes freedom of conscience

22 June, 2001
American Catholic hospitals instructed to abide by Church teaching on sterilization

Bioethics Faculty a Trailblazer in Academia

Protection of conscience law proposed for Italian pharmacists

19 June, 2001
Project Letter to the editor, Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal

18 June, 2001
Address of John Paul II to Catholic Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (June, 2001)

Pope notes need for conscientious objection

14 June, 2001
Letter to the editor, The Province (Vancouver, BC., Canada)

Customer isn't always right on issues of conscience (Susan Martinuk) 

13 June, 2001
Professor notes society 'very confused' on conscience

Conscientious objectors in Ireland face increasing threat

Website tracks relationship between corporations, researchers

7 June, 2001
Canadian Physicians for Life Press Release re: Planned Parenthood misrepresentation

Planned Parenthood misrepresents ethical obligations

2 June, 2001
News Release: World's First Faculty of Bioethics Announced

28 May, 2001
Can Workplace, Conscience Co-exist?

27 May, 2001
The Bioethics Mess Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.

24 May, 2001
Editorial- April 2001 Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal

22 May, 2001
Hold that conscience: Some health laws would force churches to betray their beliefs 

Three panel pamphlets now also available for downloading in WordPerfect 9 format

Dr. Richard Watson: Update Report on Freedom of Conscience (10 January, 2001)

21 May, 2001
Pro-life OB-GYNs Left Out in the Cold: MaterCare Founder Robert Walley Hopes to Change That (May, 2001)

Royal Pharmaceutical Society hostile to freedom of conscience

Spanish government official attacks freedom of conscience

Life Support, Anyone?  Pro-Life Physician Answers the Challenge (Los Angeles, California) (1999-2000)

4 May, 2001
Letter to the editor re: Wisconsin bill

Catholics and Pro-lifers Being Forced Out of Ob/Gyn Profession

Archbishop Calls on Catholics to Disobey New Law 

1 May, 2001
New Links:
-Christian Medical & Dental Associations (USA)

-Catholic Health Association (USA)

-Thomas More Center for Law and Justice (USA)

-National Conference of Catholic Bishops; United States Catholic Conference

-American Center for Law and Justice

-Journal of the American Medical Women's Association

27 April, 2001
Pharmacists Conscience Clause Given Stamp of Approval

24 April, 2001
Montana House Bill 413  

22 April, 2001
Comprehensive protection proposed in Arizona

Link to American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Wisconsin Assembly Bill 307 (pharmacist protection)

21 April, 2001
Kentucky House Bill 687 (pharmacist protection)

Arizona House Bill 2564

Oregon House Bill 2010 (pharmacist protection)

20 April, 2001
Louisiana Senate narrowly rejects coercive bill

South Korean medical association at odds with law

French minister considers euthanasia, neglects conscience

Wisconsin Statutes 253.09 Abortion refused; no liability; no discrimination

18 April, 2001
Wisconsin health care workers & pharmacists getting support

Wisconsin Assembly Bill 168

17 April, 2001
Pharmacist survey on 'conscience clause'

10 April, 2001
B.C. Government wants criticism of abortionists made 'hate crime'

No Christian gynaecologists and neonatologists in Netherlands

Mandatory abortion training suggested in New York

6 April, 2001
Problematic Illinois bills

3 April, 2001
Statement of the Ugandan Bishops on the 'Morning After Pill'

Ugandan bishops support conscientious objection  

29 March, 2001
News release re: Ethics Committee, College of Pharmacists of BC

26 March, 2001
College of Pharmacists of British Columbia: Conduct of the Ethics Advisory Committee
(26 March, 2001)

24 March, 2001
New link to The Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Cardinal Egan challenges New York's attack on freedom of conscience

University of Toronto Med School cited for unethical practice, coercion

23 March, 2001
Kansas conscience bills:
House Bill 2491  Senate Bill 325

20 March, 2001
Protection of Conscience: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
(Presentation by the Administrator, 3 March, 2001)

19 March, 2001
Mandated Contraceptive Coverage a Public Policy Nightmare

(Wisconsin, February, 2001)

Kentucky Conscience Bill Passes
(5 March, 2001)

18 March, 2001
"Autonomy", "Justice"and the  Legal Requirement to Accommodate the Conscience and Religious Beliefs of Professionals in Health Care   (Revised March 2001)

20 February, 2001
Morning After Pill Spurs Call for Conscientious Objection

(Madrid, Spain, 19 February, 2001)

Canadian M.P. re-introduces protection of conscience bill   (text of bill)
(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2 February, 2001)

Bottom-line Ethics in Pharmacy: Cash vs Conscience in British Columbia
(British Columbia, Canada, 18 January, 2001)

Two protection of conscience bills introduced in Indiana   (text-pharmacists)   (text-abortion)
(Indiana, USA, 11-17 January, 2001)

Protection of conscience bill for pharmacists re-introduced in Kentucky  (text of bill)
(Kentucky, USA, 4 January, 2001)

Protection of conscience bill for pharmacists introduced in Ohio  (text of bill)
(Ohio, USA., January, 2001)

Belgian pharmacist refuses to dispense MAP, condoms
(Ruisbroek, Belgium, 3 February, 2001)

Statement of Pontifical Academy for Life on the 'Morning after pill'
(Vatican City, 31 Ocrtober, 2000)

1 February, 2001
Project letter to the editor, Pharmacy Post, re: freedom of conscience

29 January, 2001
Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal suggests possibility of compromise

Project letter to the editor re: CPJ editorial

27 January, 2001
ACLJ News Release: Lawsuit on behalf of conscientious objector moves forward

Pharmacist gains in lawsuit for wrongful dismissal
(
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 24 January, 2001)

24 January, 2001
Establishment Bioethics (Article) (Pamphlet)

17 January, 2001
Project letter to the editor re: conscientious objection in pharmacy

(London, Ontario, Canada, 17 January, 2001)

Creating an Ethical Framework in the Workplace
Catholic Health Association of British Columbia (Canada)

13 January, 2001
MOU for Circumcision (St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.)

Project letter to the editor re: morning after pill
(Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 11 January, 2001)

12 January, 2001
Ethical Issues in Pharmacy Practice- 'The Morning After Pill' (Pamphlet)

Referral: A False Compromise (Pamphlet)

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