{"id":5873,"date":"2014-07-02T23:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T06:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:40:54","slug":"policy-allowing-doctors-to-deny-treatment-on-moral-or-religious-grounds-under-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5873","title":{"rendered":"Policy allowing doctors to deny treatment on moral or religious grounds under review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Globe and Mail<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Kelly Grant<\/p>\n<p>Doctors who refuse to provide certain treatments on religious or moral grounds must tread delicately or risk trampling human-rights laws, according to the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which is expected to weigh in soon on a review of professional guidelines for physicians practising in Canada\u2019s largest province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First and foremost their job is to provide health-care services to people who require them,&#8221; Barbara Hall said. &#8220;If [doctors] wish to put forward their own human rights as a barrier to doing that then they may come up against the fact that their rights are not absolute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Ms. Hall said doctors generally do not enjoy the same legal protections as religious officials \u2013 a point her commission underlined to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) when the medical regulator last updated its policy on doctors and the human-rights code in 2008. . . 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