{"id":4838,"date":"2014-03-17T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2018-03-08T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:13:49","slug":"entrenching-a-duty-to-do-wrong-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4838","title":{"rendered":"Entrenching a &#8216;duty to do wrong&#8217; in medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Canadian government funds project to suppress freedom of\u00a0conscience and religion<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author\">\u00a0Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 25 year old woman who went to an Ottawa walk-in clinic for a birth control prescription was told that the physician offered only Natural Family Planning and did not prescribe or refer for contraceptives or related services. She was given a letter explaining that his practice reflected his &#8220;medical judgment&#8221; and &#8220;professional ethical concerns and religious values.&#8221; She obtained her prescription at another clinic about two minutes away and posted the physician&#8217;s letter on Facebook. The resulting crusade against the physician and two like-minded colleagues spilled into mainstream media and earned a blog posting by Professor Carolyn McLeod on <em>Impact Ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor McLeod objects to the physicians&#8217; practice for three reasons. First: it implies &#8211; falsely, in her view &#8211; that there are medical reasons to prefer natural family planning to manufactured contraceptives. Second, she claims that refusing to refer for contraceptives and abortions violates a purported &#8220;right&#8221; of access to legal services. Third, she insists that the physician should have met the patient to explain himself, and then helped her to obtain contraception elsewhere by referral. Along the way, she criticizes Dr. Jeff Blackmer of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) for failing to denounce the idea that valid medical judgement could provide reasons to refuse to prescribe contraceptives. . .<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/ethics\/ethics005.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Full Text<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian government funds project to suppress freedom of\u00a0conscience and religion \u00a0Sean Murphy* A 25 year old woman who went to an Ottawa walk-in clinic for a birth control prescription was told that the physician offered only Natural Family Planning and did not prescribe or refer for contraceptives or related services. She was given a letter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Entrenching a &#8216;duty to do wrong&#8217; in medicine&#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":[46,77,32,650,508,162,459,287,295],"tags":[1198,572,1196,1527,1201,1650,1197,384,1202,317],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-contraception","category-ethical-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-pluralism-secularism","category-protection-of-conscience-project","category-religious-freedom","tag-canadian-institutes-of-health-research","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-carolyn-mcleod","tag-conscience-research-group","tag-daniel-weinstock","tag-francoise-baylis","tag-jocelyn-downie","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-medical-association","tag-sean-murphy"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Entrenching a &#039;duty to do wrong&#039; in medicine - 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=4838\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Entrenching a &#039;duty to do wrong&#039; in medicine - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canadian government funds project to suppress freedom of\u00a0conscience and religion \u00a0Sean Murphy* A 25 year old woman who went to an Ottawa walk-in clinic for a birth control prescription was told that the physician offered only Natural Family Planning and did not prescribe or refer for contraceptives or related services. 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