2 The attack on freedom of conscience

The attack on freedom of conscience
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The Obamacare mandate
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‘Obamacare’,
Note:MINACCIA ALLA LIBERTÀ DI COSCIENZA

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the Act required employers to include in their coverage various forms of contraception (including abortifacient) unless the employer was a church.
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attack on religious freedom and freedom of conscience.
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The Court found in favour of the corporation, holding that the religious freedom of its owners was substantially burdened
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various religious or semi-religious bodies have objected to the very idea of opting out
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They think that opting out is itself a form of immoral cooperation
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example of attempted government compulsion of people to act against their consciences in important moral matters.
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The UK midwives
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two Scottish midwives objected to what they believed to be participation in abortions,
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They already had a statutory exemption
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they objected to ‘delegating, supervising and/or supporting staff to participate in and provide care to patients throughout the termination process’
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The Supreme Court held against the midwives,
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actual procedure of terminating pregnancy.
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Canadian euthanasia
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if the practitioner is required to facilitate euthanasia by means of a referral, it does not seem that their freedom of conscience is respected.
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The EU versus conscience
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‘freedom of thought, conscience and religion’,
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freedom ‘to manifest [one’s] religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance’.
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Nevertheless, EU jurisprudence is rather mixed on freedom of conscience
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European Social Charter ‘does not impose on states a positive obligation to provide a right to conscientious objection for health care workers’ (FAFCE 2013: 16).

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PRONUNCIAMENTO DEL COMITATO UE SUI DIRITTI SOCIALI

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Sweden’s strong protection for abortion rights, disallowing conscientious refusal of abortion services,
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no pharmacist can refuse to sell legal contraceptives
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where a state does allow conscientious refusal by a person to provide some legally available service, it should ensure that the person asking for the service can obtain it elsewhere (Poland 2011: sec. 206).
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Weddings, adoptions, holidays, operations
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recent cases in the US and UK have been hostile to people objecting on religious grounds to certain actions they believe support or assist in the promotion of homosexuality.
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refusal in conscience to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
Note:IL FAMOSO CASO DEL PASTICCIERE IN COLORADO

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the baker refused to sell to a gay man a cake with a message on it saying ‘Support Gay Marriage’,
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the owners of a Christian guest house were guilty of discrimination for not renting a room to a gay couple in a ‘civil partnership’
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a number of Catholic charities have shut down their adoption services rather than face penalties for refusing to allow adoption by homosexual couples;
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an American woman seeking transgender surgery has sued a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform a hysterectomy as part of the process.
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the trend is clear;
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how, in a liberal, pluralistic society, with many diverse ethical and religious (as well as non-religious) viewpoints, where there is so much fundamental disagreement about basic ideas of right and wrong,
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‘liberal’ with a very small ‘l’.
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our liberal society contains many laws and regulations governing various types of discrimination
Note:D ALTRO CANTO...OMOSESSUALI DONNE DISABILI POCO PRODUTTIVI NERI RELIGIONE

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skin
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gender.
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ethnic origin?
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legal in the UK to set up a club for members of one gender or people of one ethnic origin and to exclude from membership anybody else.
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religious clubs,
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To be frank, the law is a bit of a mess,
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