{"id":5460,"date":"2014-12-19T21:26:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T05:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T04:36:02","slug":"doctors-who-oppose-abortion-should-leave-family-medicine-ontario-college-of-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5460","title":{"rendered":"Doctors who oppose abortion should leave family medicine: Ontario College of Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\" target=\"_blank\">LifeSite News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Steve Weatherbe<\/p>\n<p>Family doctors who object to referring patients for abortions should think about switching specialties, the man overseeing the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons&#8217; revision of its ethics policy said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marc Gabel, a Toronto psychotherapist and past president of the college, told LifeSiteNews on Thursday that if his committee&#8217;s proposed revision of the college&#8217;s &#8220;Professional Obligations and Human Rights&#8221; is adopted, then if doctors refuse to refer patients to abortionists, or to doctors willing to prescribe contraceptives, they could face disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there were a complaint, every complaint is investigated by the complaint committee,&#8221; Dr. Gabel said. The complaint committee could deliver a mild private rebuke or turn over the matter to the disciplinary committee, which Gabel chaired for several years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Carol Leet, the new president of the college, a doctor found guilty of professional misconduct by the disciplinary committee could face anything from remedial instruction to loss of his or her medical licence. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/doctors-who-oppose-abortion-should-leave-family-medicine-ontario-college-of?\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LifeSite News Steve Weatherbe Family doctors who object to referring patients for abortions should think about switching specialties, the man overseeing the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons&#8217; revision of its ethics policy said this week. Dr. Marc Gabel, a Toronto psychotherapist and past president of the college, told LifeSiteNews on Thursday that if his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors who oppose abortion should leave family medicine: Ontario College of Physicians&#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":[32,9,459,295,19],"tags":[1274,1486,385,1443,1475,384,386,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-news","category-pluralism-secularism","category-religious-freedom","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-canadian-catholic-bioethics-institute","tag-carol-leet","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-douglas-farrow","tag-marc-gabel","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-human-rights-commission","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Doctors who oppose abortion should leave family medicine: Ontario College of Physicians - 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=5460\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctors who oppose abortion should leave family medicine: Ontario College of Physicians - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LifeSite News Steve Weatherbe Family doctors who object to referring patients for abortions should think about switching specialties, the man overseeing the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons&#8217; revision of its ethics policy said this week. 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