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Trampling on health care providers' consciences

Trampling on health care providers' consciences

(RNS) Western culture wants to welcome and protect different perspectives.But that commitment to pluralism is butting up against another cherished value — the commitment to respect an individual's conscience — on an increasingly challenging front in the culture wars: controversial medical practices.This is happening in many different countries, but in the United States we are seeing lawsuits attempting to protect physicians from being forced to counsel patients on assisted suicide and Catholic hospitals from being forced to perform abortions.


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Alaska's extreme health care costs destroy economic opportunity and warp lives

"Either you have to earn so little money that you get some kind of subsidy, or you have to be married to somebody who has insurance.It's not a sob story.It's just the fact," Drake said.


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