{"id":5029,"date":"2014-08-05T23:54:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T06:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:36:54","slug":"ottawa-archbishop-among-religious-urging-cpso-not-to-violate-physicians-conscience-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5029","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa archbishop among religious urging CPSO not to violate physicians\u2019 conscience rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Catholic Register<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News <\/span><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211;\u00a0Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, along with an imam and a rabbi, have written a joint-intervention in favour of physicians\u2019 conscience rights.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>\u201cNo Canadian citizen, including any physician, should ever be disciplined or risk losing their professional standing for conducting their work in conformity with their most deeply held ethical or religious convictions,\u201d wrote Prendergast, Rabbi Reuven Bulka and Imam Samy Metwally in a July 31 letter to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The College had been seeking input until Aug. 5 on its policy review entitled \u201cPhysicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/18578-ottawa-archbishop-among-religious-urging-cpso-not-to-violate-physicians-conscience-rights\" target=\"_blank\">[Full Text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Register Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News OTTAWA &#8211;\u00a0Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, along with an imam and a rabbi, have written a joint-intervention in favour of physicians\u2019 conscience rights. \u201cNo Canadian citizen, including any physician, should ever be disciplined or risk losing their professional standing for conducting their work in conformity with their most deeply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ottawa archbishop among religious urging CPSO not to violate physicians\u2019 conscience rights&#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":[32,643,5,430,1081,9,295],"tags":[385,384,1270,3263,1272],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-ethics","category-islam","category-judaism","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-ontario","tag-reuven-bulka","tag-samy-metwally","tag-terrence-prendergast"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Ottawa archbishop among religious urging CPSO not to violate physicians\u2019 conscience rights - 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