conscience protection

Margaret Somerville | 29 January 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: abortion, conscience protection, euthanasia

Some practical steps would protect rights and prevent "ethical cleansing".

HHS mandate: Supreme Court hears oral arguments

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 March 2014 | SHEILA REPORTS |  

tags: Affordable Care Act, conscience protection, HHS mandate, Hobby Lobby, Obamacare, religious freedom, U.S. Supreme Court

Swedish nurse takes a stand on conscience rights

Mariola O'Brien | 19 February 2014 | FEATURES |  

tags: abortion, conscience protection, Sweden

If soldiers can object to using weapons, why can't health professionals refuse to assist at abortions?

Little Sisters vs. big government

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 January 2014 | SHEILA REPORTS |  

tags: conscience protection, HHS mandate, Little Sisters of the Poor, Obamacare, Obamacare contraceptive mandate, religious liberty, Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor

HHS ‘compromise’: “80 pages of nothing new”

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 February 2013 | SHEILA REPORTS |  

tags: abortifacents, Affordable Care Act, conscience protection, contraception, HHS mandate, religious freedom

The basic mandate that employers with religious objections to the HHS contraceptive coverage still have to comply or pay punitive fines still stands. The latest fig leaf changes little, but it took a few days to wade through the dense and convoluted legalese the government issued to essentially say ‘we’re not willing to budge, more than an inch.’

Could British teachers be sacked for opposing gay marriage? Probably, says QC

Michael Cook | 11 September 2012 | CONJUGALITY |  

tags: conscience protection, marriage celebrants, United Kingdom

Stock and deliver: an attempt to rob pharmacists of conscience protection fails

Cristina Alarcon | 19 March 2012 | FEATURES |  

tags: conscience protection, pharmacists, Plan B

A federal judge finds a carefully targeted rule unconstitutional.

What’s wrong with HHS birth control mandate?

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 August 2011 | SHEILA REPORTS |  

tags: conscience protection, contraception, federally funded contraception, Health & Human Services, healthcare mandate, Kathleen Sebelius, Respect for Rights of Conscience Act

Let’s count the ways…

Obama administration mandates contraceptive coverage

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 August 2011 | SHEILA REPORTS |  

tags: conscience protection, contraception, elective sterilization, Kathleen Sebelius, Orwellian, preventive healthcare, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, US Bishops

The Department of Health and Human Services, which is taking on an Orwellian context come to think of it, has just added a new twist to healthcare law.

The unintended benefit of Roe?

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 March 2011 | SHEILA REPORTS |  

tags: abortion law, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, conscience protection, healthcare law, Roe v. Wade

As long as current abortion law is on the books as legalized in the Roe v. Wade decision, it may be providing some new strength to the legal case for conscience protection in health care. Really.