{"id":10255,"date":"2020-08-25T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:47:10","slug":"physician-freedom-of-conscience-in-sasktachewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10255","title":{"rendered":"Physician\u00a0 freedom of conscience in Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sean  Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Physician Assisted Dying<\/em> adequately accommodates both physician freedom of conscience and patients&#8217; access to services. It demonstrates that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan could have taken the same approach to freedom of conscience in relation to other procedures and produced a satisfactory policy on conscientious objection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Conscientious Objection<\/em> is ambiguous with respect to effective referral and polemical in its treatment of a physician&#8217;s traditional obligation to render assistance in an emergency. It demonstrates the authors&#8217; intention to suppress physician freedom of conscience by compelling them to provide or facilitate morally contested procedures, as well as the intricate wordplay necessary to achieve that end. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/policy\/project007.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Murphy* Abstract Physician Assisted Dying adequately accommodates both physician freedom of conscience and patients&#8217; access to services. It demonstrates that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan could have taken the same approach to freedom of conscience in relation to other procedures and produced a satisfactory policy on conscientious objection. 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