Conscience protections for healthcare providers are the subject of new regulations proposed by the Bush Administration, seeking to secure provider conscience rights. The Administration is expected to issue a final rule on healthcare provider conscience rights any day. In Focus explores this important topic, with an accompanying commentary by Fr. Thomas Berg, Executive Director of the Westchester Institute.

Documents

Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health
Care Providers from Discrimination
HHS Press Release

Comments and Analysis on
Conscience Rights and Proposed Rule

Conscience and the history of moral philosophy
President's Council on Bioethics

Conscience in the practice of the
health professions | part 1 | part 2
President's Council on Bioethics

Conscience Rights and Liberty – Who’s Really Pro-Choice?

Pharmacists and the "duty" to dispense emergency contraceptives
Issues in Law and Medicine

Pharmacists and Conscience Objection
Kennedy Institute of Ethics

News Stories

Proposed Regulation on Provider Conscience
Federal Register

Stormans v. Selecky - Ninth Circuit Opinion
on "Plan B" emergency contraception
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Are Pharmacists Right to Choose?
CBS

The Fundamental Right to Refuse
LA Times

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