Conscience Protection Archives - Page 4 of 6

Trump administration announces new conscience exemptions for contraceptive mandate

Nov 8, 2018

The Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor released two updated rules concerning conscience protections for organizations and individuals in relation to the HHS contraception mandate.

By Catholic News Agency

Court hears arguments in suit aiming to take mandate exemption from nuns

Oct 25, 2018

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco heard oral arguments Oct. 19 in a lawsuit that aims to overturn a 2017 federal regulation expanding the exemption to the federal contraceptive mandate to include the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers.

By Catholic News Service

Pro-life doctors in Ireland call for robust conscience protections

Oct 4, 2018

A “small but significant” number of general practitioners in the Republic of Ireland are appealing to the county’s health minister to exempt them from being forced to refer patients to other doctors for abortions.

By Catholic News Agency

Catholic hospitals come under fire in debate over conscience rights

Aug 28, 2018

Dr. Jason T. Eberl is Professor of Health Care Ethics in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. He spoke to Crux about the current position of Catholic healthcare in the United States.

By Charles C. Camosy

Supreme Court returns case of florist who declined gay wedding to lower court

Jun 25, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated a Washington state ruling against local florist Barronelle Stutzman, who in 2013 declined to make flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding.

By Catholic News Agency

Legalizing assisted suicide harms those with depression, Hawaii bishop says

Apr 10, 2018

Hawaii became last week the most recent U.S. state to legalize assisted suicide, and the islands’ bishop has written about the shortsightedness of permitting some residents to end their lives.

By Catholic News Agency