The Catholic Conscience [NYT]

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Well, that is a rather uninformative summary of the article! :o

The topic is proposed changes to regulations which would allow health care personnel to invoke freedom of conscience in refusing to provide abortion or contraception.
Catholic teaching also requires respect for others’ consciences. Doctors and pharmacists cannot dismiss the conscience of the person seeking a medication or a procedure to which they themselves may object. For example, they may not ignore the needs of patients who may not be Catholic, or who have made conscience-based decisions to use contraception.
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One hopes that the bishops are not suggesting that the only well-formed conscience is one that is in lockstep with their own interpretation of Catholic teaching. That would, in fact, be the antithesis of a well-formed conscience.
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Jon O’Brien
President, Catholics for Choice
Washington, Nov. 18, 2008
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Wow! Jon O’Brien and Nancy Pelosi must have studied at the same school!

I wish his citations had been a more detailed.
 
What a sad but increasingly-popular perspective of what freedom of conscience means. What double standards, for the sake of convenience.

“I’m entitled to be served no matter what you believe is right.” Who cares, that Catholics pharmacists, physicians, nurses, nurse aides, etc. believe that abortion is murder and that they commit grievous sin when participating in it? They’re “trampling” on someone else’s freedom if someone is “inconvenienced” by instant gratification of their immoral demands.
 
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