{"id":5756,"date":"2015-02-22T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:44:29","slug":"protect-doctors-right-to-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5756","title":{"rendered":"Protect doctors&#8217; right to choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QMI AGENCY<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about choice. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that suffering Canadians have the right to choose to end their life through assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>But doctors must also have the right to choose\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 to choose whether they are a part of this process or not.<\/p>\n<p>A recent article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal showcases several points worth repeating. They report that a majority of palliative care physicians actually don&#8217;t envision assisted suicide as part of their work. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgarysun.com\/2015\/02\/22\/protect-doctors-right-to-choose\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QMI AGENCY It&#8217;s all about choice. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that suffering Canadians have the right to choose to end their life through assisted suicide. But doctors must also have the right to choose\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 to choose whether they are a part of this process or not. A recent article in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Protect doctors&#8217; right to choose&#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":[77,32,4,162],"tags":[100,269,1629],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","tag-canadian-society-of-palliative-care-physicians","tag-palliative-care","tag-susan-macdonald"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Protect doctors&#039; right to choose - 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=5756\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protect doctors&#039; right to choose - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"QMI AGENCY It&#8217;s all about choice. 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