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Hadley Arkes: Conscience and the law in New York

By Alliance Alert

The Catholic Thing: "The federal laws to protect the conscience of doctors and nurses spring from an ethic that is not widely shared in New York. To use some older language, the political class that 'forms the regime' in New York ? the people who hold office, public and private, and who move in the climate of opinion in the city and state ? just will not put up with these claims of the nurse. In the air of New York, abortion is regarded as a right, unalloyed and urgent. No one who obstructs the honoring of that right is likely to be regarded as doing anything remotely 'rightful.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).