conscience clause

• Taking conscience seriously or seriously taking conscience? Obstetricians, specialty boards, and the takings clause.

INTRODUCTION A young woman visits her local obstetrician. She tells him that she suspects, based on a home pregnancy test, that she is pregnant. Unw...

• Notre Dame Law Review
• Vol. 86 Nbr. 4, August 2011

• Pulling the plug on the conscience clause.

Over the past fifty years, the purposes and practices of medicine have changed radically. Where medical ethics was once life-affirming, today's treatm...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• The Conscience Clause

Legislators in several states have proposed bills that would protect the rights of a pro-life pharmacist-even one wishing to deny a customer her emergency contraceptive pills late at night in some solitary rural pharmacy when there are no other routes to obtain them-by instituting lefty-sounding "Health Care Workers' Rights" or "Pharmacist Conscience Clauses." Among other goodies, it promises that pharmacists will be protected against discrimination: "Employers cannot refuse to hire, discriminate against, segregate, or terminate a pharmaceutical professional because of their opposition to any service involving a particular drug or device that they have a good faith belief is used for abortions.

• American Prospect, The
• Vol. 17 Nbr. 4, April 2006

• 'Conscience Clause' Passes Assembly

Bill would allow medical professionals to opt out of more procedures on moral grounds

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• February 25, 2004

• Conscience clause: Supreme Court unanimously upholds federal religious liberty law in Ohio prison case.

When Mitzi Hamilton, a low-level offender, entered Virginia corrections officials' custody in 2003 she made what she thought was a simple request--a k...

• Church & State
• Vol. 58 Nbr. 7, July 2005

• Prescription Contraceptives and the Pharmacist's Right to Refuse: Examining the Efficacy of Conscience Laws

Introduction I. The Pharmacist's Ethical Obligations II. Current Refusal Clauses III. Ramifications of a Pharmacist's Refusal and the Adequacy of Existing Legal Protections A. Employment Ramifications and Statutory Protections 1. Protections Available Under Title VII 2. Scope of Protections Available Under State Civil Rights Legislation 3. Do State Conscience Clause Statutes Provide Greater Employment Protections? B. Tort Liability C. State Disciplinary Action IV. Conclusion

• Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal
• Nbr. IV-1, March 2006

• Doyle to Veto 'Conscience Clause'

Ban on obesity lawsuits also will fall, he says

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• March 16, 2004

• ACLJ Gets Critical Legal Win in 'Conscience Clause' Case in Illinois.

WASHINGTON -- The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on constitutional law, said today it's pleased with an important victory in its...

• Business Wire
• April 06, 2009

• Catholics' Suit Draws Dividing Line for Obama

Three years ago, President Obama gave the University of Notre Dame's commencement address, pleading for common ground with Catholics on thorny issues and vowing to seek a "sensible conscience clause" for doctors and nurses who oppose abortion out of religious objections. Since then, however, relations have fizzled, to the point that Notre Dame and dozens of other Catholic institutions sued the Obama administration last week arguing that its new health-care rules infringe on religious liberty by forcing schools and charities to pay for contraception, which the church teaches is immoral.

• The Washington Times
• May 29, 2012

• Obama Nominates Kansas Governor for High-Ranking Health Position, Denounces Conscience Clause

The HHS 's "Provider Conscience Regulation" states that its purpose is to ensure that HHS funds "do not support morally coercive or discriminatory practices or policies" against health professionals.

• Between the Lines; Livonia
• September 07, 2009