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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; conscientious objection</title>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood throws in the towel</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/planned-parenthood-throws-in-the-towel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Charlie Butts Planned Parenthood has ended its legal attack on Arizona&#8217;s &#8220;Abortion Consent Act,&#8221; which had been held up in court since signed into law in September 2009. The law, argued before the Arizona Court of Appeals in mid-June, prohibits non-physicians from performing surgical abortions and provides for women to be fully informed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Italy, gain and loss in the struggle for life</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/in-italy-gain-and-loss-in-the-struggle-for-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Josephine Quintavalle The abortion rate has halved in 15 years, but there is a disturbing new trend. I receive an excellent newspaper cutting service from the Movimento per la Vita in Italy, and am grateful to my pro-life colleagues in that great country for keeping us up-to-date on the significant progress they are making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contraceptives mandate would make cowards of us all</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/contraceptives-mandate-would-make-cowards-of-us-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan A White House edict tells us to ignore our conscience when we go to work. Bernie Madoff should ask for a retrial. If there is one thing that disaffection with “Wall Street” has achieved it is the ramping up of moral discourse. Not since the Great Depression, probably, have we heard so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurses: Lawsuit hasn&#8217;t halted abortion duties</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/15/nurses-lawsuit-hasnt-halted-abortion-duties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Charlie Butts A group of nurses threatened with termination are setting the record straight after the hospital where they are employed denied forcing them to train and participate in abortions. &#160; In September, the University of Medicine &#38; Dentistry of New Jersey implemented a policy requiring that nurses undergo training that involved assisting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sebelius&#8217; War Lands Her in Court</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/10/sebelius-war-lands-her-in-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belmont Abbey College enters David-and-Goliath fight against the feds over mandate to cover contraceptives. Early last month, President Obama bragged to a St. Louis crowd about the recent Health and Human Services’ regulations that will require thousands of religious employers to pay for contraception, sterilization and drugs that probably cause abortions. The crowd cheered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare, Conscience, and Religious Liberty:  A Response to Linda Greenhouse</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/08/healthcare-conscience-and-religious-liberty-a-response-to-linda-greenhouse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/08/healthcare-conscience-and-religious-liberty-a-response-to-linda-greenhouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Helen Alvaré October 19, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/10/4155 New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse refuses to see the truth about contraception, conscience, and religious liberty. I wouldn&#8217;t be the first to question the judgment of New York Times&#8216; former Supreme Court reporter, Linda Greenhouse. That&#8217;s already been done by National Public Radio, the New York Times&#8216; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/conscience-coercion-and-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/conscience-coercion-and-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Helen Alvaré, Gerard V. Bradley and O. Carter Snead September 26, 2011 at thepublicdiscourse.com. A recent rule issued by the Obama administration threatens our nation’s healthcare by attacking the consciences of our nation’s healthcare providers. The Witherspoon Institute’s Task Force on Conscience Protection recently reviewed and will submit comments on the “interim final rule” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency plan overturned</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/07/emergency-plan-overturned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cristina Alarcon An Illinois court has struck down a 2005 measure that would force pharmacists to provide Plan B. In 2005, the then-governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, enacted an “emergency” measure intended to force pharmacists to fill all prescriptions for the Plan B morning after pill, regardless of their ethical or moral beliefs. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge: Pharmacists can&#8217;t be forced to dispense Plan B</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/06/judge-pharmacists-cant-be-forced-to-dispense-plan-b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/06/judge-pharmacists-cant-be-forced-to-dispense-plan-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sounds good to me. SPRINGFIELD, IL &#8211; A judge has ruled that Illinois pharmacists can&#8217;t be forced to dispense emergency contraception if doing so violates their religious convictions. Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Belz said Tuesday that requiring pharmacists to sell the so-called &#8220;morning-after&#8221; pill violates the state&#8217;s right-of-conscience law. Pharmacists Luke VanderBleek and Glenn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repelling the Attack on Conscience</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/30/repelling-the-attack-on-conscience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Helen Alvaré This article was first published at publicdiscourse.com on February 23, 2011. A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience There is no need to view the matter of conscience protection in health care as a zero-sum game between conscience-driven healthcare providers and the patients they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;New&#8217; Conscience Clause Rule</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/18/new-conscience-clause-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/18/new-conscience-clause-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the day pro-life activists have been waiting for. The Department of Health and Human Services led by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today issued its final rule on conscience protections for health care providers. The article provided a link to a PDF of the ruling. (When I have time I&#8217;ll read it.) But just based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have US conscience clause protections been eviscerated?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/11/30/have-us-conscience-clause-protections-been-eviscerated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/11/30/have-us-conscience-clause-protections-been-eviscerated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by James S. Cole An American nurse who was forced to participate in a late-term abortion has effectively nowhere she can lodge a grievance. Can an American nurse refuse to participate in a medical procedure repugnant to her conscience? As of last week, it appears that the answer is no. A Federal Court has ruled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘We insist: leave your conscience at the door’</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/08/23/%e2%80%98we-insist-leave-your-conscience-at-the-door%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/08/23/%e2%80%98we-insist-leave-your-conscience-at-the-door%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s more from the author of &#8216;Plan C for Conscience,&#8217; since that post garnered so much attention here and elsewhere. Here&#8217;s her take on the reactions her previous article received. Be sure not to miss the last few paragraphs. They&#8217;re key. by Cristina Alarcon Pharmacists dispense advice to a colleague who will not sell the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novel defences for conscientious objection</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/novel-defences-for-conscientious-objection-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/novel-defences-for-conscientious-objection-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com Should doctors employed by a government hospital be allowed to make a conscientious objection to abortion? A British doctor, J.W. Gerrard, constructs an original defence of the &#8220;yes&#8221; position in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. He believes that it can be both reasonable and ethical. Two of his [...]]]></description>
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