{"id":7544,"date":"2017-05-12T17:27:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T00:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:51:11","slug":"new-england-journal-of-medicine-publishes-attack-on-medical-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7544","title":{"rendered":"New England Journal of Medicine publishes &#8220;attack on medical conscience&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>First Things<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Wesley J. Smith<\/p>\n<p>Doctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But that may soon change. Bioethicists and other medical elites have launched a frontal assault against doctors seeking to practice their professions under the values established by the Hippocratic Oath. The campaign&#8217;s goal? To force doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and others in the health field who hold pro-life or orthodox religious views to choose between their careers and their convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Ethics opinions, legislation, and court filings seeking to deny &#8220;medical conscience&#8221; have proliferated as journals, legislative bodies, and the courts have taken up the cause. In the last year, these efforts have moved from the relative hinterlands of professional discussions into the center of establishment medical discourse. Most recently, preeminent bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel\u2014one of Obamacare&#8217;s principal architects\u2014coauthored with Ronit Y. Stahl an attack on medical conscience in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, perhaps the world&#8217;s most prestigious medical journal. When advocacy of this kind is published by the <em> NEJM<\/em>, it is time to sound the air raid sirens. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2017\/05\/pro-lifers-get-out-of-medicine\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine! First Things Wesley J. Smith Doctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But that may soon change. Bioethicists and other medical elites have launched a frontal assault against doctors seeking to practice their professions under the values established by the Hippocratic Oath. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New England Journal of Medicine publishes &#8220;attack on medical conscience&#8221;&#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":[46,77,30,32,4,650,5,162,7,295,28],"tags":[62,2871,384,2742,515,362],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-australia","category-canada","category-commentary","category-contraception","category-ethics","category-euthanasia","category-law","category-religious-freedom","category-usa","tag-american-civil-liberties-union-aclu","tag-ezekiel-j-emanuel","tag-ontario","tag-ronit-y-stahl","tag-vermont","tag-wesley-j-smith"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>New England Journal of Medicine publishes &quot;attack on medical conscience&quot; - 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=7544\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New England Journal of Medicine publishes &quot;attack on medical conscience&quot; - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine! 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