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>Catholic Bishops to Allow Plan B in Emergencies
>Can anyone be forced to act against his conscience? Do religious convictions have any weight in the law? How far can the courts go to make a person do an act that he believes is unethical or immoral? I hope these questions are not ignored due to the sensationalism that surrounds emergency contraception. The Catholic … Continue reading
>Courts force 14 States to pay for elective abortions
>Here’s an interesting fact: of the 17 states that use their own Medicaid funds to cover elective abortions, 14 of them were forced to do so by the courts. (Georgia may be the next one.) The “Hyde Amendment” has been added to Federal health care funding bills since 1976. Those who support abortion on demand … Continue reading
>Parental Notification for Abortion Decreases STD risk
>Instinctively, I believe that many of us knew this. However, now we have documentation to point to. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Advance Access published an article online by Jonathan Klick and Thomas Stratmann on September 4, 2007 , entitled, Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens: Parental Involvement Laws and Sexually Transmitted … Continue reading
>Gambling with CHIP (Pork, Perks and Politics, not Poker)
>We’ve been hearing and reading about how desperately Congress needs to pass the bill to fund – and expand – SCHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. However, you may not have heard about the pork, perks and politics that are included in the current versions of the House and Senate bills, which led President Bush … Continue reading
>Fashion, style, modern love and abortion
>The New York Times editorial staff has once again descended to a new low. Perhaps their intent is to demean “modern love,” pregnancy, and the “choice” of whether or not to abort a child. Today’s “Fashion and Style – Modern Love” section presents us with “Would Our Two New Lives Include a Third?,” the story … Continue reading
Ethics statments from the AMA and CMDA
Last month, I wrote about the Christian Medical and Dental Association’s ethics statements. There’s a comment about them in last weeks’ CMDA “News and Views.” See Dr. Robert Scheidt’s comments, with the links to the three ethics statements that were approved at this year’s CMDA House of Directors. This week, we have the NEJM article … Continue reading
>Trust me: I’ll act against my conscience
>The title throws you for a loop, doesn’t it? Trust me to do what? Follow the law, when I can violate my own conscience? Practice ethical medicine when I promise not to have any personal convictions to guide me? What are laws and ethics to a person who has no conscience? This month’s American Journal … Continue reading
>And the world didn’t end (Supreme Court Partial Birth Ruling)
>I’m minding my own business, visiting a few hundred blogs in an effort to complete the database on Bioethics Internet resources for my Bioethics capstone project, and one of the headlines said that the Supreme Court had up held the Federal ban on Partial Birth Abortions. There was no earthquake, no sonic boom, and I … Continue reading
>Enough: ultrasounds, abortion, women and blood
>While calling us “anti-choice,” some “pro-choice” men and women are beginning to look at the true nature of what is being chosen. They’re noticing that we who oppose abortion are more likely to accept the woman with an unwanted pregnancy and championing the laws that make adoption and parenting a true choice. They’re noticing that … Continue reading
>About those ultrasounds before abortion
>Over the last few days, Kelly at Blog.Bioethics.net has been blogging about House Bill 3355, passed in the South Carolina, which will require the abortion doctor to review the ultrasound with the woman or girl at least one hour before the abortion. The woman has to sign a statement that she’s received the informed consent … Continue reading
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