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The conscience clause is widely invoked in Catholic universities, hospitals, and agencies because the Catholic Church opposes abortion, contraceptives, sterilization, and embryonic stem cell treatments. Opponents of related FOCA legislation have interpreted the possible end of the conscience clause as a demand to either "do abortions or close."
Doctors and other medical personnel have the right to conscientious objection. Rada Borić (Women's Network Croatia) has argued that it is given more prominence than the women's right to abortion, thus making it difficult. [5]
Conscience clause or conscientious objection/objector may refer to: Conscience clause (education) Conscientious objection to abortion; Conscientious objector (in the military) Conscience clause in medicine in the United States
The passage of this bill would allow Iowa’s medical providers, medical institutions, and insurance companies to discriminate against marginalized communities with impunity and would have ...
If enough practitioners opt out as a result of conscience, a right granted by the conscience clause statutes in many jurisdictions (see Conscientious objection to abortion and Conscience clause in medicine in the United States), patients may not have any means of having their own positive rights fulfilled. [5]
Conscience clause in medicine in the United States § Catholic doctrine; Canon 915 § Politicians consistently promoting permissive abortion or euthanasia laws; Bp. W. Francis Malooly on Canon 915; Bp. Edward J. Slattery § Illegal immigrants
The plan specified which benefits must be offered; a National Health Board to oversee the quality of health care services; enhanced physician training; the creation of model information systems; federal funding in the case of the insolvency of state programs; rural health programs; long-term care programs; coverage for abortions, with a ...
Opponents, however, assert that conscience clauses are weak and easily reinterpreted, and do not explicitly allow religious hospitals to ban the abortion procedure within the hospital. [ 21 ] The election of Barack Obama , an advocate of the Freedom of Choice Act, to the presidency caused pro-life organizations to organize against the bill in ...