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Matt Schmitz provides a helpful update on disturbing developments in Europe regarding conscience protection for health care providers.  I have not yet read the proposed resolution to be considered this week by the Council of Europe, and I'm not sure that I will agree fully with Matt's assessment (e.g., I don't think that public disclosure of conscientious objector status is per se unreasonable -- I have recommended such a measure in the past -- though I agree that a government registry of objectors could be put to troubling uses).  He is right, though, to raise some big red flags.  The resolution's denial of conscience protection for hospitals is downright maddening; though hospitals and other corporate bodies do not exercise a right of conscience, they are essential venues for the formation, expression, and exercise of conscience.  (See, e.g., here.)

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