{"id":4816,"date":"2014-01-31T22:58:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T06:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2018-04-26T23:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T06:24:20","slug":"physicians-in-ottawa-under-attack-for-refusing-to-prescribe-contraceptives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"Physicians in Ottawa under attack for refusing to prescribe contraceptives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PhysiciansA 25 year old woman went to a walk-in clinic in Ottawa, Ontario, to get a prescription for birth control pills.\u00a0 She was advised the physician on duty did not prescribe contraceptives, and was given a letter stating that for reasons of\u00a0 “medical judgment as well as professional ethical concerns and religious values”\u00a0he would assist patients only with Natural Family Planning.\u00a0 She declined to return the next day to see another physician, and drove around the block to another clinic about two minutes away.\u00a0 She posted the letter on Facebook, which resulted in a campaign against three Ottawa physicians who decline to provide contraceptives.<\/p>\n

Outraged Facebookers called the physician a “jerk,” a “complete anachronism,” “disgusting,” incompetent, “unethical and unprofessional,” a “worthless piece of ____,” a “crummy doctor,” “an idiot,” and described him as – judgemental.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Goofballs like this,” wrote one, “are the best walking arguments for the birth control they don’t believe in.”<\/p>\n

“He should move to the states, or maybe Dubai, where he will be among his own kind.”<\/p>\n

One Facebooker suggested that women should go to the clinic to make gratuitous requests for prescriptions, apparently for the purpose of fabricating complaints against the physician: “I think that women should start going in looking for prescriptions for The Pill. You know, just a top up till their family doctor can see them again.”<\/p>\n