{"id":5045,"date":"2014-08-19T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2018-03-05T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T04:05:44","slug":"conscience-should-guide-doctors-at-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"Conscience should guide doctors at end of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Laura Eggertson<\/p>\n<p>All doctors have the right to follow their conscience when deciding whether to assist dying patients physically or to provide them with the means to end their lives\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0within the bounds of legislation, delegates to the Canadian Medical Association&#8217;s annual meeting have voted.<\/p>\n<p>As Canada considers changing its laws concerning assisted death, Canada&#8217;s doctors considered their stance on the second day of the Canadian Medical Association&#8217;s (CMA) 147th annual meeting in Ottawa. In the end, they voted 91% in favour of allowing individual physicians to follow their conscience in deciding whether or not to provide assistance. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/site\/earlyreleases\/19aug14_conscience-should-guide-doctors-at-end-of-life.xhtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Full Text<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Medical Association Journal Laura Eggertson All doctors have the right to follow their conscience when deciding whether to assist dying patients physically or to provide them with the means to end their lives\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0within the bounds of legislation, delegates to the Canadian Medical Association&#8217;s annual meeting have voted. As Canada considers changing its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conscience should guide doctors at end of life&#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":[77,32,162,9,511],"tags":[3228,572,2713,1283],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-society-politics","tag-angele-genges","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-jeff-blackmer","tag-louis-hugo-francescutti"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Conscience should guide doctors at end of life - 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=5045\" \/>\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 should guide doctors at end of life - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal Laura Eggertson All doctors have the right to follow their conscience when deciding whether to assist dying patients physically or to provide them with the means to end their lives\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0within the bounds of legislation, delegates to the Canadian Medical Association&#8217;s annual meeting have voted. 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