The contentious, topical debate about whether faith-based health care organizations should be granted accommodation on the basis of institutional conscientious objection to medical assistance is dying (MAiD) addressed through a comparative analysis arguments both sides issue that references such relevant considerations as: claimed ‘moral-authority’, competing rights-based claims, obligations ar...

BACKGROUND The legitimacy of conscientious objection to abortion continues to fuel heated debate in Italy. In two recent decisions, the European Committee for Social Rights underlined that conscientious objection places safe, legal, and accessible care and services out of reach for most Italian women and that the measures that Italy has adopted to guarantee free access to abortion services are ...

Recent years have witnessed a rather vibrant debate about Grice’s cancellability test. To demonstrate the validity of test, this essay provides critical review debate, covering sarcasm objection, intentionality objection and entailment objection. It is found that bone contention versus non-cancellability concerns its approach, scope feasibility, test survives these objections relatively unscath...