Actuality | Science and Bioethics

The Norwegian Supreme Court: yes to conscientious objection
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(Of Mauro Faverzani) The Norwegian Supreme Court, last 11 October, recognized the right of doctors not to carry out health treatments, that may go against their conscience. As required by the European Convention on Human Rights.
This was the case of Dr. Katarzyna Jachinowicz, Polish, family doctor in the Municipality of Sauherad: convinced that «life begins at the moment of conception», she said she was determined not to "participate in its destruction», administering therapies, that can cause abortion. Like intrauterine devices. Because of this, in December 2015, she had been fired, although unanimously recognized as a highly qualified professional, with over twenty years of experience.
Now the Supreme Court verdict has brought her justice and returned what she had been unduly deprived of, confirming a previous verdict, favorable to her, already issued some time ago by a lower court, verdict contested by the health authorities, who intended to bring the matter back to the courts and get to the bottom of it. Read More

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Norway, the judges impeach the leaders of the NGOs
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The Norwegian judiciary speculates, at the expense of the leaders of the associations, the crimes of "embezzlement" and "international money laundering"
Of Gerry Freda
In Norway, the ong they ended up in the center of one “media storm”. The leaders of various non-profit organizations were in fact investigated by the judiciary of the Nordic country because they were suspected of having stolen, for private purposes, huge sums from the associations' coffers.
Other exponents of the world of volunteering have instead been indicted for having received funding by foreign governments in violation of anti-money laundering legislation. Read More

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