Catholic Health East: Ethics Topics

Topics:

Conscience

Church Teaching
	Autonomy (26K) Vatican II (Gaudium et Spes) on the dignity of moral conscience
	Directive 28 (23K) Informed consent and conscience formation
	Directive 59 (24K) Requests to use or withdraw life-sustaining procedures; Catholic moral teaching
Article/Commentary
	Campaign to Force Hospitals to Provide Abortions From the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003. Forty-five states and the federal government protect the right of health care providers to decline involvement in abortion. Pro-abortion groups seek to abolish these legal protections.

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