{"id":5775,"date":"2015-03-12T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:18:19","slug":"trampled-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5775","title":{"rendered":"Trampled rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\"><em>Catholic Register<\/em> (Editorial)<\/p>\n<p>Requiring doctors to remain pillars of integrity while chipping at their moral underpinning is an odious contradiction. Yet that is what the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario proposes with a draconian new policy that tramples on conscience and religious rights.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial regulatory body disregarded the majority view of 16,000 public submissions, dismissed the opinion of the Ontario Medical Association and the American Medical Association, and rejected the policy of the Canadian Medical Association when it voted 21-3 to force doctors to refer patients who seek treatments that their own doctor won&#8217;t provide due to moral or religious convictions. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/columns\/item\/19859-trampled-rights\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Register (Editorial) Requiring doctors to remain pillars of integrity while chipping at their moral underpinning is an odious contradiction. Yet that is what the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario proposes with a draconian new policy that tramples on conscience and religious rights. The provincial regulatory body disregarded the majority view of 16,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trampled 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":[32,4,9,19],"tags":[65,572,385,1202,1529],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-commentary","category-news","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-american-medical-association","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-ontario-medical-association","tag-professional-obligations-and-human-rights"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Trampled 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=5775\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trampled rights - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Catholic Register (Editorial) Requiring doctors to remain pillars of integrity while chipping at their moral underpinning is an odious contradiction. 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