{"id":12844,"date":"2005-09-14T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12844"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T04:11:38","slug":"correspondence-the-celestial-fire-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12844","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) The Celestial Fire of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oswaldo Castro,  Frederic A Lombardo, Victor R Gordeuk<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nejm.jpg\" alt=\"New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM\" class=\"wp-image-11214\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>Real medical care and services always respect human<br>life. No one should be forced to collaborate in abortion (even when it is achieved through the prevention of implantation), lethal research on embryos, euthanasia, or assisted suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Castro O, Lombardo FA, Gordeuk VR. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc051740\">(Correspondence) The Celestial Fire of Conscience<\/a>. N Engl J Med. 2005 Sep 22;353(12):1301. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oswaldo Castro, Frederic A Lombardo, Victor R Gordeuk ExtractReal medical care and services always respect humanlife. No one should be forced to collaborate in abortion (even when it is achieved through the prevention of implantation), lethal research on embryos, euthanasia, or assisted suicide. Castro O, Lombardo FA, Gordeuk VR. (Correspondence) The Celestial Fire of Conscience. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12844\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Correspondence) The Celestial Fire of Conscience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,1356,1133,554,14,882],"tags":[1816,1817,1815,1818],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-embryocide","category-embryonic-experimentation","category-ethics","category-euthanasia","category-journals-correspondence","tag-frederic-a-lombardo","tag-oswaldo-castro","tag-r-alta-charo","tag-victor-r-gordeuk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>(Correspondence) The Celestial Fire of Conscience - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12844\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"(Correspondence) The Celestial Fire of Conscience - Protection of Conscience Project Library\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oswaldo Castro, Frederic A Lombardo, Victor R Gordeuk ExtractReal medical care and services always respect humanlife. 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