{"id":7520,"date":"2017-05-22T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T18:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7520"},"modified":"2018-03-04T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:12:44","slug":"lets-expand-the-scope-of-conscience-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7520","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Expand the Scope of Conscience Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Evolution News and Science Today<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\u00a0Wesley J. Smith<\/p>\n<p>As I have written here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2017\/05\/pro-lifers-get-out-of-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> and elsewhere<\/a>, attacks on medical conscience are proliferating, and the ground is being prepared to strip doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and others\u00a0of the ability to\u00a0practice their professions under the principles of Hippocratic ideals.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that if the Left ever again takes control of the government, conscience rights will come under even more concerted attack than is currently happening. I mean, they\u00a0tried to force <em>nuns<\/em> to provide contraception in the order&#8217;s health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>A bill was introduced in Congress to strengthen existing conscience protections. Called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/644\/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.+644%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Conscience Protection Act of 2017<\/a>, . . . but the legislation, as written, is far too narrowly drawn. The pending crisis of medical conscience extends far beyond abortion. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/2017\/05\/lets-expand-the-scope-of-conscience-protection\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution News and Science Today \u00a0Wesley J. Smith As I have written here and elsewhere, attacks on medical conscience are proliferating, and the ground is being prepared to strip doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and others\u00a0of the ability to\u00a0practice their professions under the principles of Hippocratic ideals. I suspect that if the Left ever again takes control &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#8217;s Expand the Scope of Conscience Protection&#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":[46,77,4,162,760,28],"tags":[62,362],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-proposed-laws","category-usa","tag-american-civil-liberties-union-aclu","tag-wesley-j-smith"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Let&#039;s Expand the Scope of Conscience Protection - 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=7520\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Let&#039;s Expand the Scope of Conscience Protection - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evolution News and Science Today \u00a0Wesley J. 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