Department of Health and Human Services Takes Action to ‘Enforce Conscience Rights’
HHS announced policy actions to ‘affirm the dignity of life consistent with the Hyde Amendment.’
Results from Tag: 'conscience rights'
Virginia Takes a Troubling Path on Life and Conscience Rights
COMMENTARY: As Virginia’s new political landscape takes shape, Catholic leaders warn that physician-assisted suicide and weakened conscience rights could soon return to the legislative agenda.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Pledges to Carry Out Trump’s Policies on Abortion, Conscience Rights
In the three-hour hearing, Kennedy fielded questions on his interpretation of Title X, late-term abortions, mifepristone, stem-cell research and medical conscience rights.
Religious Freedom Is a Line of Defense We Can Hold
COMMENTARY: Our first freedoms are under attack. But instead of pursuing a ‘new order’ or promoting regime change, we need to double down and demand a return to the founding principles of the republic.
Cardinal Parolin Appears to Deny Conscience Right Exemption from Vatican’s Pfizer Vaccine
Responding to a query about his Dec. 23 ruling mandating vaccination for all Vatican employees and visitors who haven’t recently recovered from COVID-19, the Vatican secretary of state indicated religious exemptions are not ‘justified’ with respect to mRNA vaccines.
New Report Finds Freedom of Conscience Under Threat in France, Spain, and Sweden
The European Parliament, the European Union’s law-making body, voted in June in favor of a report describing abortion as “essential healthcare” and seeking to redefine conscientious objection as a “denial of medical care.”
Is the Decision to Receive COVID-19 Vaccination for Each Person’s Conscience to Judge?
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS
COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Great Need for Delivering Care Based on Conscience and Compassion
COMMENTARY: The pandemic has shed a light on over-use of medical technology, resource scarcity and limited access, an epidemic of loneliness, the use of euphemisms like “medical aid in dying,” and a growing inability within our culture to deal with suffering.
Defending Conscience Rights in Healthcare with Roger Severino (Episode 4)
Healthcare affects every American - whether we are ill or healthy, parents or caretakers for aging relatives, or those who work as medical professionals. Many current issues related to healthcare services and medical procedures implicate religious freedom and conscience rights. Roger Severino is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of the Center’s new HHS Accountability Project. He joins Andrea Picciotti-Bayer of the Conscience Project and Matthew Bunson, EWTN News’ executive editor, to discuss the threats to this important civil right and the protections under the law for conscience in healthcare
NCBC’s Joseph Meaney on Vaccinations and Conscience Rights
Amid a wave of new COVID-19 vaccine mandates being rolled out by businesses and institutions, Catholics who morally object to the vaccines are finding themselves at odds with those who think the ethical obligation to protect public health should trump conscience rights. On Register Radio, Joseph Meaney of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, offers guidance for Catholics to wade through the issues in play and make properly informed decisions for their own health and the good of society.
