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Physicians Are People Too: The Case for Conscience

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Physicians Are People Too: The Case for Conscience
Dr. Vance Mason and Ariel Zetina discuss her pregnancy during a checkup at Inner City Health Center in Denver, Colorado on March 15, 2017. Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty Images
Paul Adams
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“No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority,” said Thomas Jefferson in 1809.
Paul Adams
Paul Adams
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Paul Adams is a professor emeritus of social work at the University of Hawai‘i, and was professor and associate dean of academic affairs at Case Western Reserve University. He is the co-author of "Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is," and has written extensively on social welfare policy and professional and virtue ethics.
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