{"id":10449,"date":"2021-01-25T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10449"},"modified":"2021-02-05T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:13:09","slug":"physicians-should-not-be-forced-to-make-assisted-death-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10449","title":{"rendered":"Physicians should not be forced to make assisted-death referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bill C-7, passed by the House of Commons and now in front of a Senate committee, raises even more ethical challenges than the original legislation. Doctors who object should not be compelled to support it.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ottawa Citizen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thomas Bouchard, Ramona Coelho,&nbsp; Leonie Herx<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill C-7 is changing the landscape of Canadian medicine. With this legislation, the federal government is expanding medically administered death (MAiD) to individuals not at end of life and with no requirement for MAiD to be a last resort in patient care. Under Bill C-7, a patient with a chronic illness or disability could receive MAiD when therapeutic options for care that could alleviate suffering have not been provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some physicians may decide to aid in ending the life of their patient who is not dying, what will become of physicians who do not believe that administering death is good medicine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professional medical opinions are rooted in extensive medical knowledge, years of training and practice, and an individual practitioner\u2019s conscience. It is our conscience that navigates us through the ethics necessary for providing each patient with the best medical advice for a given situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicine is not a department store. Our role is not to check the storeroom to see if we have the display item you like in the size and colour you desire.  .  . [<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/bouchard-coelho-and-herx-physicians-should-not-be-forced-to-make-assisted-death-referrals\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill C-7, passed by the House of Commons and now in front of a Senate committee, raises even more ethical challenges than the original legislation. Doctors who object should not be compelled to support it. Ottawa Citizen Thomas Bouchard, Ramona Coelho,&nbsp; Leonie Herx Bill C-7 is changing the landscape of Canadian medicine. With this legislation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physicians should not be forced to make assisted-death referrals&#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":[77,32,4,5,162,7,9],"tags":[3976,2870,293,2047],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-ethics","category-euthanasia","category-law","category-news","tag-leonie-herx","tag-ramona-coelho","tag-referral","tag-thomas-bouchard"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Physicians should not be forced to make assisted-death referrals - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governments must establish systems to allow patients direct access to euthanasia and physicians to practise with conscience and integrity.\" \/>\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=10449\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Physicians should not be forced to make assisted-death referrals - 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