{"id":2879,"date":"2000-04-08T22:41:20","date_gmt":"2000-04-08T22:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2013-05-30T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:15:01","slug":"calgary-bishop-supports-conscientious-objectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Bishop supports conscientious objectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Maxwell of the <em>Edmonton Sun<\/em> reported that Calgary&#8217;s Roman Catholic Bishop, Frederick Henry, supports pharmacists who refuse to sell &#8220;morning after&#8221; pills for reasons of conscience, as well as nurses who do not wish to participate in abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Henry spoke of the need for protection of conscience legislation for all health care professionals. He noted that it was unfair that physicians could refuse to be involved in abortions, while nurses, pharmacists and others were denied similar consideration. Henry had first-hand experience with the problems faced by conscientious objectors when he was Bishop of Thunder Bay (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/\/procedures\/abortion003.aspx\">Bishop protests on behalf of nurses (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada)(1997)<\/a> ). He cited the more recent case of nurses at Calgary&#8217;s Foothills Hospital to illustrate the need for legislation. (See <i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/repression\/repression001.aspx\">Foothills Hospital Now Forces Nurses To Participate In Genetic Terminations<\/a> <\/i>;<i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/repression\/repression002.aspx\">Nurses At Foothills Hospital Rebel Over The Horrifying Results Of Late-Term &#8216;Genetic Terminations&#8217;<\/a><\/i>) .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Maxwell of the Edmonton Sun reported that Calgary&#8217;s Roman Catholic Bishop, Frederick Henry, supports pharmacists who refuse to sell &#8220;morning after&#8221; pills for reasons of conscience, as well as nurses who do not wish to participate in abortion. Bishop Henry spoke of the need for protection of conscience legislation for all health care professionals. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calgary Bishop supports conscientious objectors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,32,643,247,9],"tags":[54,565,261,275,566],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-morning-after-pill","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-frederick-henry","tag-nurses","tag-pharmacists","tag-physicians"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Calgary Bishop supports conscientious objectors - 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=2879\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Calgary Bishop supports conscientious objectors - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cameron Maxwell of the Edmonton Sun reported that Calgary&#8217;s Roman Catholic Bishop, Frederick Henry, supports pharmacists who refuse to sell &#8220;morning after&#8221; pills for reasons of conscience, as well as nurses who do not wish to participate in abortion. 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