seattle.politics

"Lobby Dosser" <@> wrote in message
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> "Chom Noamsky" wrote:
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>>>"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote:
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>>> The issue is one of forcing someone to act against their personal
>>> conscience. That's a big deal and goes beyond "regulation", I think.
>>
>> What happens to "conscientious objectors" in the . military? Are
>> they immediately given release from obligation the moment they apply
>> for status?
>>
>>
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>
> Are Catholic doctors required to prescribe birth control pills?

Considering the folowing study (from J Young's favourite site) the vast
majority of Catholic doctors do it voluntarily:

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Catholic Docs Okay With Abortion-Causing Birth Control But Not Embryonic
Stem Cells

FLEMINGTON, NJ, April 27, 2005 () - According to a new
national study conducted among 1,536 . physicians, most Catholic
physicians overwhelming support the use of birth control pills among healthy
adult women. A large majority of all physicians (93%) and Catholic
physicians (87%) indicated that they would "prescribe birth control pills to
any adult patients that request them and for whom they are medically
appropriate."

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