{"id":8247,"date":"2018-03-30T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2018-04-06T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:14:10","slug":"the-medical-conscience-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8247","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Medical Conscience&#8221; Civil Rights Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>First Things<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Wesley J. Smith<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Wesley_J._Smith\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until recently, healthcare was not culturally controversial. Medicine was seen as primarily concerned with extending lives, curing diseases, healing injuries, palliating symptoms, birthing babies, and promoting wellness &#8211; and hence, as a sphere in which people of all political and social beliefs were generally able to get along.<\/p>\n<p>That consensus has been shattered. Doctors today may be asked to provide legal but morally contentious medical interventions such as sex selection abortion, assisted suicide, preimplantation genetic diagnosis of IVF embryos, even medications that inhibit the onset of puberty for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria. As a consequence, medical practice has become embroiled in political and cultural conflict. . .<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal083.aspx\"> <strong>Full Text<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Things Wesley J. Smith* Until recently, healthcare was not culturally controversial. Medicine was seen as primarily concerned with extending lives, curing diseases, healing injuries, palliating symptoms, birthing babies, and promoting wellness &#8211; and hence, as a sphere in which people of all political and social beliefs were generally able to get along. That consensus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8220;Medical Conscience&#8221; Civil Rights Movement&#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":[5,40,7],"tags":[2449,362],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-international","category-law","tag-david-s-oderberg","tag-wesley-j-smith"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>The &quot;Medical Conscience&quot; Civil Rights Movement - 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=8247\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The &quot;Medical Conscience&quot; Civil Rights Movement - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First Things Wesley J. 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