{"id":3008,"date":"1999-11-16T04:11:50","date_gmt":"1999-11-16T04:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2013-05-31T04:17:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T04:17:50","slug":"conscience-legislation-for-health-care-workers-to-be-debated-in-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Conscience Legislation for health care workers to be debated in House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>News Release<\/h2>\n<p>Ottawa &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/proposed\/canada-federal-004.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Bill C-207<\/a>, which would protect health care providers, particularly nurses, from being forced to participate, against their wills, in abortion procedures or acts of euthanasia, will be debated in the House of Commons this week. Debate is currently scheduled for Thursday November 18 at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The bill summary for C-207 (formerly designated C-461 during the last session of parliament) reads as follows: &#8220;This enactment protects the rights of health care practitioners and other persons to refuse, without fear of reprisal or other discriminatory coercion, to participate in medical procedures that offend a tenet of their religion, or their belief that human life is inviolable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent years there have been many nurses either refused employment or dismissed because \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of their unwillingness to capitulate in the face of pressure to assist in abortions. Bill C-207 would remedy that situation. Unfortunately, after the bill is debated it will not be voted on, so that it has no chance of becoming law. This is because the Liberal-dominated sub-committee on Private Members Business chose not to make the bill votable.<\/p>\n<p>The bill has now also been introduced in the Senate as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/proposed\/canada-federal-003.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Bill S-11 <\/a>by Senator Raymond Perrault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Release Ottawa &#8212; Bill C-207, which would protect health care providers, particularly nurses, from being forced to participate, against their wills, in abortion procedures or acts of euthanasia, will be debated in the House of Commons this week. Debate is currently scheduled for Thursday November 18 at 5:30pm. The bill summary for C-207 (formerly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conscience Legislation for health care workers to be debated in House of Commons&#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":[32,10],"tags":[622,621],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-news-releases","tag-maurice-vellacott","tag-raymond-perrault"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Conscience Legislation for health care workers to be debated in House of Commons - 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=3008\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conscience Legislation for health care workers to be debated in House of Commons - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News Release Ottawa &#8212; Bill C-207, which would protect health care providers, particularly nurses, from being forced to participate, against their wills, in abortion procedures or acts of euthanasia, will be debated in the House of Commons this week. 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