The Petrie Flom Center recently welcomed Dov Fox, Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego School of Law, to discuss his new book.
In his new book The Conscience of Care, Dov Fox explores the concept of medical conscience through controversies around health care services like IVF, IUDs, opioids, gender affirming care, psychedelics, organ transplants, and advance directives. “We’re used to hearing about conscientious refusers: physicians and pharmacists whose moral convictions lead them to deny a range of treatments…
By Elizabeth Sepper For the past decade, a blockbuster religion law case has been a feature of every Supreme Court term. The Court dramatically eased the ability of employers to claim religious exemptions. It overturned long-standing Establishment Clause precedent. And it revolutionized Free Exercise Clause doctrine to favor objectors to public health measures and antidiscrimination…
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If you want to understand our politics of abortion, you must read Mary Ziegler’s recent book, “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.”
As a scholar of religion who cares deeply about this psychedelic renaissance, I offer two points of caution from the perspective of my field.
A new dataset of health care conscience laws relating to abortion reveals broad scope of protection for providers, limited protection for patients.
By Stephen Wood San Pedro Sula in Honduras was the murder capital of the world for decades, a title it lost only a few years ago to Caracas, Venezuela in 2016. At its peak, there were an average of three murders a day, which is alarming for a city with a census population of around…
By Leslie C. Griffin The New Yorker just published an article full of ethical questions about the best health care treatment for dementia patients. It should make you think about which life you would choose. Larissa MacFarquhar’s piece is titled “The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care.” Its subtitle suggests a sad story, noting “Many facilities…
by Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair The Supreme Court is currently considering National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra, a challenge by abortion opponents to a California law that requires unlicensed centers in the state to inform potential patients about whether the center is medically licensed or not, and that requires clinics offering pregnancy-based…
