Category: conscience

Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs

Commentary Coercion is becoming ubiquitous in medicine. It’s not just vaccine mandates. Doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who oppose morally contentions medical procedures are increasingly being forced to choose between remaining in their professions and violating their deepest-held religious beliefs. Take the new “Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill of 2021” just passed in Queensland, Australia. The law…


Why Follow Your Conscience?

During World War II, a group of college students calling themselves “The White Rose” wrote leaflets against Nazism and were executed. Another person of conscience during the war, German industrialist Oskar Schindler changed the fate of 1,200 Jews, whose families now thrive, and they honor him today. Sadly, communism survived World War II and continued…


Do National COVID Mandates Fulfill the Public Good?

Commentary A crisis has now darkened Western democracies just as surely as long-benighted dictatorships. Wherein does it lie? In the disdain with which its proud technocrats dismiss conscience. Conscience is no quantifiable thing; it has no weight or measure, and it cannot be listed among a nation’s assets. Science can’t prove it exists. Yet conscience…