A conscience-objector doctor or nurse can have no scruples about referring a woman to such an agency, because they are not thereby acting as an agent to the procurement of an abortion.
But in a period of receding tumult, there was Ali still, the objector of conscience, punching and talking again.
Someone who objects to war due to his religious conscience has a right to be a conscientious objector and not serve in the military, even were there to be a draft.
When ought we to respect and not prosecute individuals who, guided by their consciences (e.g., conscientious objectors and whistleblowers), act against societal laws and institutions?
But without at least the possibility of conscientious objectors, it becomes harder to credit conscience.
People of faith and conscience have historically taken actions like being conscientious objectors and refraining from standing during the pledge of allegiance to indicate their opposition to the dominant culture.
Although all objectors take their position on the basis of conscience, they may have varying religious, philosophical, or political reasons for their beliefs.
British MPs from Labour, the Conservatives and several other parties supported an early day motion subitted by Caroline Lucas on 19 January calling for legal exemptions for conscientious objectors and the "immediate and unconditional release" of Tair and other prisoners of conscience.
At the Center on Conscience and War, a Washington-based national nonprofit group that works for the rights of conscientious objectors, phone calls quadrupled right after Sept. 11 and are now about 4,000 a month, double the usual number, said J. E. McNeil, the center's executive director.
For pacifists and conscientious objectors, the rhetoric masked an infringement of liberty: how could you be free if you couldn't follow your conscience?
