Tag: Conscientious Objection

Hospitals and hospital managers would be barred from blocking abortions under new guidelines proposed by NSW Health.  

In the face of renewed attacks on conscientious objection in healthcare, we must recognise that the profound view of conscience we hold in the West is a human achievement—not just an artefact of the church. Emergency physician Dr Stephen Parnis, well-known for his public defence of clinicians’ right to stand on their beliefs, will defend the role of conscience in healthcare in his 2025 Plunkett Lecture on 5 November at ACU North Sydney.

Sydneysiders turned up in their hundreds on a warm September day to rally against the growing accessibility of abortion in NSW as part of Love Sydney’s annual ‘Walk for Life’ event.

Thousands rallied together outside NSW Parliament House on Wednesday evening to oppose an “evil” bill which could force Catholic hospitals to provide and perform abortions, while removing the conscientious objection rights of healthcare workers across the state.

Debate on the Greens bill to broaden New South Wales' already extreme abortion laws began in NSW Parliament on 26 March.

A parliamentary inquiry into the ACT's proposed voluntary assisted dying laws has been criticised for a “serious omission” in making no recommendations for conscientious objection provisions in its majority report.

Healthcare workers and students concerned about the encroachment of the law on key life issues, including so-called voluntary assisted dying (VAD) and abortion, will...

  By Dr Bernadette Tobin A thought experiment Daniel Sulmasy, a Catholic medical doctor and philosopher who works at Georgetown University in Washington DC, once invited us...