Taking conscience seriously or seriously taking conscience? Obstetricians, specialty boards, and the takings clause

After providing background on recent controversies regarding healthcare providers' conscience, Fragoso explains why an American Board of Obstertricians decertification based on noncompliance with the Ethics Opinion could meet the criteria needed to constitute a regulatory taking. He then examines whether or not ABOG meets the public function standards of the state action doctrine. After which, he looks at the nature of a medical practice and its goodwill to see if it is property in a constitutionally cognizable sense, and whether it ought to be so.