{"id":5047,"date":"2014-08-21T22:32:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T05:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2018-03-05T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T04:04:55","slug":"canadian-medical-association-board-of-directors-confirms-new-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5047","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Medical Association Board of Directors confirms new assisted suicide, euthanasia policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\" target=\"_blank\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two days after it was passed at an Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, the CMA Board of Directors approved the following motion:<\/p>\n<h5>6.\u00a0 The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) supports the right of all physicians, within the bounds of existing legislation, to follow their conscience when deciding whether to provide medical aid in dying as defined in CMA&#8217;s policy on euthanasia and assisted suicide. (DM 5-6) (Confirmed by the Board of Directors on Aug. 21, 2014) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cma.ca\/Assets\/assets-library\/document\/en\/GC\/Final-Resolutions-GC-2014-unconfirmed-e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>]<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Murphy* Two days after it was passed at an Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, the CMA Board of Directors approved the following motion: 6.\u00a0 The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) supports the right of all physicians, within the bounds of existing legislation, to follow their conscience when deciding whether to provide medical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canadian Medical Association Board of Directors confirms new assisted suicide, euthanasia policy&#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":[77,32,5,162,9],"tags":[572],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-ethics","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-canadian-medical-association"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Canadian Medical Association Board of Directors confirms new assisted suicide, euthanasia policy - 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