President Obama said at Notre Dame that he supports conscience clauses for doctors who don’t want to perform abortions, but he is seeking to revoke the existing Bush conscience clause.
How can we protect doctors who believe in the Hippocratic Oath from being driven out of medicine when they refuse to perform legal procedures to which they are ethically opposed? I offer some suggestions in the Center for Bioethics and Culture newsletter .
Greetings on a Morning Walk
Blackberry vines, you hold this ground in the shade of a willow: all thorns, no fruit. *…
An Outline of Trees
They rise above us, arching, spreading, thin Where trunk and bough give way to veining twig. We…
Fallacy
A shadow cast by something invisible falls on the white cover of a book lying on my…