Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have been a physician and teacher of ethics at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine for 24 years. During this ...

On Jan. 9, HHS finalized the Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes rule. The rule clarifies the process for enforcing federal conscience laws and strengthens ...

Pope Francis often makes headlines with in-flight press conferences at the end of papal trips, and his return to Rome from visiting Southeast Asia in September was no exception. Asked what advice he ...

It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene. We're going to take a few minutes this morning to revisit two significant decisions in the federal courts this week. In a moment, we'll hear about ...

Several federal laws protect the “rights of conscience” of federally funded healthcare entities and healthcare providers and prohibit recipients of federal funds from requiring individuals to ...

“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...

These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...