{"id":10265,"date":"2020-08-24T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10265"},"modified":"2020-08-27T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:52:47","slug":"quebec-law-and-freedom-of-conscience-for-health-care-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10265","title":{"rendered":"Quebec law and freedom of conscience for health care professionals"},"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<p>Unlike other Canadian provinces, Quebec codes of ethics for health care professionals are enacted by provincial statute. Quebec is also unique in having a provincial euthanasia law, which includes a protection of conscience provision for health care professionals specific to that service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Freedom of conscience for services other than euthanasia<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physicians<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Code of Ethics for Physicians<\/em><a href=\"#001.\">1<\/a> and the gloss on the <em>Code <\/em>by <em>ALDO Quebec<\/em>,<a href=\"#002.\">2<\/a> an authoritative document, require objecting physicians to advise patients of the consequences of not receiving the contested service, and &#8220;offer to help the patient find another physician.&#8221; They are not obliged to help the patient find someone willing to provide the contested service. Objecting physicians are normally quite willing to explain how patients can find other physicians or health care professionals. . . 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Freedom of conscience for services other than euthanasia Physicians The Code &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quebec law and freedom of conscience for health care professionals&#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":[32,508,162,8,2339,36],"tags":[410],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-ethical-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-legal-commentary","category-policies","category-essays","tag-quebec"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Quebec law and freedom of conscience for health care professionals - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/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:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10265\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quebec law and freedom of conscience for health care professionals - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sean Murphy* Unlike other Canadian provinces, Quebec codes of ethics for health care professionals are enacted by provincial statute. 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