Conscience rights: Filling our minds the government way

Submitted on August 19, 2011
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By Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@stlouisreview.com
Conscience rights: Filling our minds the government way
Conscience rights: Filling our minds the government way
Illustration by Lisa Johnston
Humans have rights. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that we have the right to equal dignity, the right to exercise our freedoms and the right to legitimate self defense. It also instructs "the right to act in conscience and in freedom" in making moral decisions (CCC 1782). Without that right, other rights cannot be freely enjoyed. Conscience rights have been used to defend doctors who refuse to perform abortions, charities that won't permit adoption by same-sex couples and pharmacists who decline to fill prescriptions for birth control.

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