{"id":3219,"date":"2013-07-19T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:22:45","slug":"abortion-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"Abortion &#038; Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Sean Winters<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Michael_Sean_Winters\">*<\/a> | . . . We are called to conform ourselves to the moral law and so form our consciences that this conformity is understood, properly, as a genuine liberation, a freeing of one\u2019s capacity to choose so that we choose the good. In short, our exercise of conscience is not just a legal claim of immunity. . .<br \/>\n<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/religion\/religion021.aspx\">Full Text<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sean Winters* | . . . We are called to conform ourselves to the moral law and so form our consciences that this conformity is understood, properly, as a genuine liberation, a freeing of one\u2019s capacity to choose so that we choose the good. 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