As we move into a morally polyglot society–with the culture of death rushing to the fore–the question of medical conscience will become increasingly hot button. This is apparently already occurring in the Netherlands where many...
Read MoreA doctor can be forced to violate her religious beliefs in the operation of her practice, according to the Obama Dept. of Justice. Attention must be paid. This is a step beyond the radical DOJ argument made previously in the...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC There is tremendous pressure being placed on doctors and other medical professionals to eschew their own moral consciences in the provision of medical services — as...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC A bill has been proposed in New Hampshire to protect medical conscience. You’d think I’d be thrilled, right? Wrong. This bill would permit doctors to refuse to...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have a piece in the Daily Caller about protecting the conscience rights of medical professionals who wish to maintain traditional Hippocratic Values. First, I set up the...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have been fighting the international campaign to legalize and normalize doctor-prescribed/administered death since 1993, and this much I know: Once euthanasia is let in...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I am a strong believer in medical conscience rights — properly defined and narrowly construed. Apparently, a poll of medical students in the UK found strong support...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I wish I could say I was surprised. After decades of assertions that judgmentalism has no place in medicine, we have recently seen advocacy for a return of such...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Surprise, surprise — they did it on a Friday when potentially unpopular news is released to get lost in the weekend. It took longer than I thought it would —...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC As you may know, I think one of the big coming fights in bioethics will be over “medical conscience,” that is, efforts to force Hippocratic and/or pro life...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBCThe newest edition of my podcast What It Means to be Human concerns the need to legally protect the consciences of Hippocratic physicians and other health care...
Read MoreOur CBC Special Consultant, Wesley J. Smith does our annual predictions piece to give us a heads-up on what he anticipates will be the big bioethic news and concerns each year. Part of the deal I have with Wesley, is for him to...
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