Conscience clauses not just about abortion anymore
WASHINGTON (RNS) Faced with a request to give an unmarried female patient a prescription for birth control pills, Dr. Michele Phillips looked to her conscience for the answer.
''I'm not going to give any kind of medication I see as harmful," said Phillips of San Antonio . The drugs would not protect her patient from "emotional trauma from multiple partners," Phillips reasoned, or sexually transmitted diseases....
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