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Growing threat: Abortion conscience coercion at med schools

By Alliance Alert

National Catholic Register: "Pro-life medical and nursing students across the country say they face the same pressures to violate their consciences as two recent applicants to Vanderbilt University?s nursing residency program who were told that they would have been required to participate in abortions . . . 'This was a blatant violation of a federal law, commonly known as the Church Amendment, which was passed by Congress in the 1970s, that said health-care personnel and medical students cannot be forced to assist or participate in an abortion,' said [Matt Bowman], an Alliance Defense Fund attorney who handled the complaint on behalf of the Vanderbilt students."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).