{"id":5773,"date":"2015-03-11T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:16:10","slug":"internal-memos-show-how-a-handful-of-canadian-lawyers-launched-a-national-campaign-against-doctors-conscience-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5773","title":{"rendered":"Internal memos show how a handful of Canadian lawyers launched a national campaign against doctors&#8217; conscience rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LifeSite News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Steve Weatherbe<\/p>\n<p>March 11, 2015 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews.com<\/a>) \u2013 Only a few weeks after Ontario&#8217;s College of Physicians and Surgeons voted to compel the province&#8217;s doctors to refer and even perform operations they consider immoral, Saskatchewan&#8217;s College is scheduled to follow suit. But all Canada&#8217;s provincial governing bodies have been urged to get on the bandwagon as part of a national campaign from an obscure, federally-funded coterie of pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia academics.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sean Murphy, director of the British Columbia-based Protection of Conscience Project, the pro-abortion Conscience Research Group is the prime mover behind efforts by the leadership of the Ontario and Saskatchewan medical professions to force their members to do abortions, assist at suicides, and euthanize their patients upon request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the correspondence I&#8217;ve seen,&#8221; Murphy told LifeSiteNews, &#8220;there does appear to be a movement to impose this on all doctors in Canada.&#8221; . . .[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/internal-memos-show-how-a-handful-of-canadian-lawyers-launched-a-national-c?\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LifeSite News Steve Weatherbe March 11, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) \u2013 Only a few weeks after Ontario&#8217;s College of Physicians and Surgeons voted to compel the province&#8217;s doctors to refer and even perform operations they consider immoral, Saskatchewan&#8217;s College is scheduled to follow suit. But all Canada&#8217;s provincial governing bodies have been urged to get on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internal memos show how a handful of Canadian lawyers launched a national campaign against doctors&#8217; conscience rights&#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":[32,9,287,19],"tags":[1556,1196,1183,1555,385,1525,1527,1201,1650,3170,1197,317],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-news","category-protection-of-conscience-project","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-andrea-foti","tag-carolyn-mcleod","tag-college-des-medecins-du-quebec","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-nova-scotia","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-saskatchewan","tag-conscience-research-group","tag-daniel-weinstock","tag-francoise-baylis","tag-gus-grant","tag-jocelyn-downie","tag-sean-murphy"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Internal memos show how a handful of Canadian lawyers launched a national campaign against doctors&#039; conscience rights - 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=5773\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Internal memos show how a handful of Canadian lawyers launched a national campaign against doctors&#039; conscience rights - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LifeSite News Steve Weatherbe March 11, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) \u2013 Only a few weeks after Ontario&#8217;s College of Physicians and Surgeons voted to compel the province&#8217;s doctors to refer and even perform operations they consider immoral, Saskatchewan&#8217;s College is scheduled to follow suit. 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