| Repression of Conscience
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Compulsory Choice
This is a summary of part of an article that
appeared in WORLD Magazine.
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Original article by Lynn Vincent World Magazine, January 18, 2003 Volume 18 Number 2 Link to original text. After ten years on the job, nurse Janice Turner, who refused to dispense the potentially abortifacient 'morning-after pill', was fired because a new supervisor believed that she was not a "complete nurse." Turner's case, now being litigated with the help of the Rutherford Institute, is an example of a problem that is coming to the attention of the American Center for Law and Justice with increasing frequency. Attorney Frank Manion of the ACLJ notes that the number of calls received about right-of-conscience issues has escalated over the past three years from about one call every two months to a call per week. Most of the calls are from nurses, who usually don't have the professional independence and status enjoyed by physicians.
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