{"id":5484,"date":"2014-10-02T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:31:48","slug":"theres-no-mushy-middle-on-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5484","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no “mushy middle” on euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercatornet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Margaret Somerville*<\/a><\/p>\n

Many know the saying “You have to fish or cut bait”. Many fewer know the law\u2019s equivalent, “You can\u2019t approbate and reprobate”. But the Canadian Medical Association\u2019s recent dealing with their 2007 Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide<\/a> makes it seem they are unaware of the warning and wisdom these axioms communicate.<\/p>\n

That CMA policy unambiguously declares: “Canadian physicians should not participate in euthanasia or assisted suicide.”\u00a0 Despite that, a motion passed at the recent CMA General Council meeting, which ostensibly was meant only to ensure freedom of conscience, has allowed the CMA to make the following statement in its intervener factum in the upcoming appeal in the Supreme Court of Canada in the Carter <\/em>case:<\/p>\n

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“As long as such practices [as euthanasia and assisted suicide] remain illegal, the CMA believes that physicians should not participate in medical aid in dying. If the law were to change, the CMA would support its members who elect to follow their conscience [either to refuse or to undertake<\/em> euthanasia and assisted suicide].”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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