Tag: medical conscience

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

5}

Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, progressive ideology, race, Roman Catholic, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, woke ideology}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Arkansas, breasts, California, children, cross-sex hormones, de-transitioners, lawsuits, malpractice, medical conscience, medical professionals, minors, moral panic, parents, puberty blocker, surgery, transgenderism}

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits to the Rescue

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

State legislatures are considering bills to remedy a problem by lengthening their statute of limitations when the procedures were done on minors. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 28, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Horror Story, Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, Catholic clergy, Center for Medical Progress, Charles Colson, China, Colorado, conscience rights, COVID-19, David Daleiden, David French, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, Francis Collins, human fetus, John Polkinghorne, Judicial Watch, medical conscience, Mother Teresa, National Institutes of Health, Roman Catholic, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, Templeton Prize, The New Yorker, U.S. Presidents, vaccine mandates, Wuhan}

#5 Story of 2021: Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
December 28, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

15}

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 5, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Horror Story, Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, Catholic clergy, Center for Medical Progress, Charles Colson, China, Colorado, conscience rights, COVID-19, David Daleiden, David French, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, Francis Collins, human fetus, John Polkinghorne, Judicial Watch, medical conscience, Mother Teresa, National Institutes of Health, Roman Catholic, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, Templeton Prize, The New Yorker, U.S. Presidents, vaccine mandates, Wuhan}

Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
October 5, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

15}

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, adoption, animal personhood, Argentina, BioEdge, doctor, habeas corpus, Hippocratic Oath, human life, medical conscience, orangutan, pregnancy, rape, Sweden, zoo}

In Argentina, Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Terminate Pregnancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine

4}

I can write those words. I understand their meaning. But I can’t comprehend such an utter rejection of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 21, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, Canada, common law, contraception, Court of Appeals, doctors, euthanasia, First Amendment, freedom of religion, health care, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medical conscience, Ontario, patients, religious beliefs, Roman Catholic, socialized medicine}

Canada Court: Doctors Must Euthanize, Abort, or Refer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 21, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The culture of death brooks no dissent. In Canada, doctors have been ordered to bend the knee. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, advance directive, American Academy of Pediatrics, assisted suicide, authoritarianism, child abuse, circumcision, doctors, Hippocratic Oath, medical conscience, New York Times, patients, puberty}

Medical Conscience for Me, but Not for Thee

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The more elective the desired intervention, the greater should be the right of medical conscience. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 6, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, breast cancer, death certificate, death cult, euthanasia, HIV, legalization, lethal prescription, malpractice, medical conscience, New Mexico, nurse, patients, physician assistant, physicians, telemedicine, terminal illness}

New Mexico’s Radical Assisted Suicide Legislation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 6, 2019

Medicine

5}

The assisted suicide movement is akin to a death cult. The ultimate ideological point isn’t to provide a last resort escape for the imminently dying. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, Australia, authoritarianism, Canada, conscientious objection, doctors, health care, Hippocratic Oath, human rights, medical conscience, medicine, nurses, Ontario, pharmacists, progressive, suicide}

The Drive to Obliterate “Medical Conscience”

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

An international effort seeks to transform abortion into a positive right, which would require the state to guarantee access. Read More ›