A coalition of religious leaders and veterans has called for a reconsideration of conscientious objection to war, saying that military members should have the right to object to the wars in Iraq and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This past Fourth of July, my grandfather, 94 years old, finally had his high-school graduation. Drafted in the winter of 1945 ...
On January 16, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a landmark decision that the extradition of a conscientious objector to the war in Ukraine is permissible. The question was whether the ...
J.E. McNeil remembers well the call she received about a year and a half ago from a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He was of the Muslim faith and had contacted McNeil, a lawyer and head of ...
Kim Davis, a Rowan County, Ky., clerk, celebrates her release Sept. 8 from the Carter County Detention center in Grayson, Ky. The Vatican Sept. 30 did not deny reports that while in Washington, Pope ...
New research shows conscientious objection laws targeting sexual minorities in states such as Ohio are leading to lower HIV ...
MADRID, Spain — A body representing Spain’s medical colleges said on Monday that a government minister’s threat to conscientious objection on abortion is “unacceptable, illegal, and unjust.” The ...
"I weighed my responsibility to help preserve my community in war-time; I considered in what manner I might effectively rationalize killing; I questioned whether I could subordinate myself to the ...
5. Internal Morality of Medicine/Role Morality vs Oath Keeping An internal morality of medicine is, I think, a sort of role morality. There does seem to be something to the latter as Phil said, I have ...
Kim Davis has touched a nerve with conservative Christians. Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz have rushed to stand alongside her. And Times readers are having none of it.
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MANY years ago (in the early nineties) I stood almost alone in England as an advocate of general military service. I advocated it because I knew that regular food and athletic life (the most vital ...