Ask the Expert: The Role of Conscience in Health Decisions

What is a conscience clause? Why is the Obama administration rescinding the Bush administration's midnight conscience clause rule? And how should the government address questions on conflicting conscience in the future?

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For more information, see:

• Putting President Obama’s “Conscience” Proposal in Context
  
• Guidelines for Resolving Conflicts of Conscience
• Slideshow: A Timeline of Federal Refusal Rules
• The Progressive Conscience in Action, by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
• Matters of Conscience, by Sally Steenland