I just returned from the medical ethics conference. It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. The first half of the conference was a rather good dialogue about ethics counseling. It was an eye-opener about how difficult health care decisions can be,...
We have been examining the definition of conscience forwarded by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG) Ethics Committee and the consequences of taking this definition to its logical conclusion. If one may forgive a medical ethics...
In the last blog post we examined the definition of conscience promoted by the Committee of Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. When we compare their description to the definition taught by the Catholic Church, we notice...
In November, 2007, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Ethics wrote Committee Opinion Number 385, "The Limits of Conscientious Refusal in Reproductive Medicine." In this opinion, the Committee on Ethics undertook to...