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...subject these decisions to an external moral, political or religious debate. We require Christian Scientists--who believe that the healing of disease should be performed by spiritual means alone--and Jehovah's Witnesses--who have deep religious convictions against accepting blood transfusions--to pay the entirety of their health services fee, regardless of their religious or personal beliefs. Although it is understandable that students may harbor strong moral objections to abortion, such personal preference cannot be grounds for overturning a professional and medical decision to subsidize a legally-sanctioned procedure...
...variety of people have a religious objection to one or another medical practice, but should [for example] Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists be allowed to receive refunds from people who get blood transfusions?" Shames asked...
...made a right turn off of Mass. Ave. onto Beech Street, past a funeral home's two Cadillac hearses and a Jehovah's Witness temple to the intersection with Elm Street. Hitting the yellow rubber strip, I requested my stop. But the signal didn't work...
...falls within the immediate penumbra of the free-speech right not to be forced to, as Supreme Court justices proclaimed, "confess by word or act" any particular view of "politics, nationalism, religion or other matter of opinion." The Supreme Court has protected under this aspect of free speech a Jehovah's Witness's refusal to salute the American flag and a refusal to carry a license plate with a libertarian state motto...
...righteously indignant about the fact that, unless they go out of their way to opt out, students are helping to fund abortions. I share his annoyance at this situation. People should not be permitted to opt out of helping to pay for abortions, or any other legal procedure. Should Jehovah's Witnesses who enjoy the benefits of belonging to mainstream health care organizations, but who object to the practice of blood transfusions, be given the opportunity to determine what their share would be of the annual cost of that procedure, and elect not to pay it? Should People...