By Wesley J. Smith As the bioethics movement’s most prominent members write stridently in favor of stripping medical professionals of conscience rights in the world’s most respected medical journals, as the New York Times shrieks in horror at the Trump Administration’s announcement that it will emphasize enforcement of existing legal protections of conscience, and as …
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By Dorothy Cummings McLean OSLO, Norway, October 15, 2018 – The Norwegian Supreme Court has made history by upholding a Polish physician’s right not to dispense abortion-inducing devices. The court set a new precedent for freedom of conscience for doctors in the northern country on October 11 when it decreed that Dr. Katarzyna Jachimowicz had …
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By Dave Andrusko Last November we reposted a story from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children which announced that Katarzyna Jachimowicz, an experienced Polish Catholic physician who had moved to Norway in response to a shortage of physicians, had won the nation’s first legal victory for freedom of conscience. Dr. Jachimowicz had been …
Continue reading "Supreme Court of Norway tells health authorities to respect right of conscientious objection for medical professionals in their employment"Editor’s note. This excerpt comes from SPUC–the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. More countries have announced that they will dedicate money to funding abortion overseas Countries including the Norway and Australia are the latest to respond to the reinstating of the Mexico City Policy by President Trump, which prevents US funding from being …
Continue reading "Norway and Australia join countries funding abortion in developing countries"“Abortion tourism” feared as “right” will be extended to foreign women By Dave Andrusko I claim no expertise on the status of abortion laws in the Scandinavian countries but a newspaper in Norway is reporting that not only may Norwegian woman abort a perfectly healthy twin, but also that this “right” must be extended to …
Continue reading "Norway Oks “fetal reduction” of healthy unborn babies"By Dave Andrusko I thought I’d heard everything but… Jørgen Kristiansen, the deputy mayor of Kristiansand, Norway, is being hammered for (as a headline in The Daily Mail put it) “inflam[ing] Norway abortion debate by posting picture of fake 12-week foetus in palm of a hand.” “Fake”? Kristiansen posted a photo of a fetal …
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