The Right of Medical Conscience Is Fast Coming to an End

Until recently, physicians who did not want to participate in human life-ending practices -- abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide -- were allowed space to practice Hippocratic medicine regardless of the legal status of these procedures.

But that right of medical conscienceis fast coming to an end, with laws starting to be passed that threaten doctors with what I call "medical martyrdom": do the deadly deeds (or be complicit via referral to adoctor who's willing) or don't practice medicine....