New Anscombe Centre Q&A Event!

Following popular demand, we are having a second Question and Answer Session which will take place on Tuesday 14 March at 7pm! This will be a Zoom event and the session will include questions (submitted by donors) on:

👩🏻‍⚕️❤️‍🩹 Conscience (‘Do healthcare professionals have a right to object to referring for abortion?’ ‘How do you defend conscientious objection in a liberal democracy?’)

🤰🏻🚑 Emergency obstetrics and abortion (‘Is it ever necessary to induce delivery before viability to save the mother’s life?’ ‘Would this be morally the same as abortion?’)

🏥💧 Assisted nutrition and hydration (‘How do we protect patients without capacity from being starved to death?’)

If you would like to attend, please fill in this Google Form!

The expert panel will include:

• Prof David Albert Jones, Director of Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He is also Professor of Bioethics at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford and Vice-Chair, Ministry of Defence Research Ethics Committee.

• Dr Pia Matthews, Senior Lecturer on the MA Bioethics and Medical Law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, a faculty member of Mater Ecclesiae College, and Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development at Allen Hall Seminary Chelsea. She is a Governor of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre.

• Dr Chris Wojtulewicz, Education and Research Officer at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He is a Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism.

We look forward to many of you joining us then!

If you have questions you would like to submit for our panel to answer in future Q&A sessions, you can do so by becoming one of our donors!