{"id":6763,"date":"2016-03-29T18:57:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:55:53","slug":"growing-intolerance-threatens-rights-of-conscience-of-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6763","title":{"rendered":"Growing Intolerance Threatens Rights of Conscience of Health Care Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/commentary\/lynn-wardle\/growing-intolerance-threatens-rights-conscience-health-care-workers\">cnsnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Lynn Wardle<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Lynn%20D.%20Wardle\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around the world, policies and actions of many governments and governmental agencies are threatening rights of conscience of health care providers and employees.\u00a0 These challenges and dangers seem to be increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Recent times have seen numerous high-profile incidents in which nurses, doctors, hospital staff, government employees, and other health care workers are being pressured, required and forced to provide morally-controversial elective procedures (such as non-therapeutic abortions) despite their expressed moral objections to participating in such services. [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal013.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cnsnews.com Lynn Wardle* Around the world, policies and actions of many governments and governmental agencies are threatening rights of conscience of health care providers and employees.\u00a0 These challenges and dangers seem to be increasing. Recent times have seen numerous high-profile incidents in which nurses, doctors, hospital staff, government employees, and other health care workers are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing Intolerance Threatens Rights of Conscience of Health Care Workers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1334,24,28],"tags":[63,3233,1177,2300,237,261,3281,750],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-commentary","category-norway","category-sweden","category-usa","tag-american-college-of-obstetricians-and-gynecologists-acog","tag-cathy-cenzon-de-carlo","tag-ellinor-grimmark","tag-lynn-wardle","tag-midwives","tag-nurses","tag-parliamentary-assembly-of-the-council-of-europe-pace","tag-universal-declaration-of-human-rights"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Growing Intolerance Threatens Rights of Conscience of Health Care Workers - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6763\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Growing Intolerance Threatens Rights of Conscience of Health Care Workers - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"cnsnews.com Lynn Wardle* Around the world, policies and actions of many governments and governmental agencies are threatening rights of conscience of health care providers and employees.\u00a0 These challenges and dangers seem to be increasing. 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