{"id":5875,"date":"2014-07-03T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:38:54","slug":"calgary-doctor-who-wont-prescribe-birth-control-backed-by-pro-life-medical-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5875","title":{"rendered":"Calgary doctor who won\u2019t prescribe birth control backed by pro-life medical professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0LifeSite News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Pete Balinski<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY, Alberta &#8212; After a doctor received national flak for refusing to prescribe contraception in a Calgary walk-in clinic, an Alberta pharmacist and a British Columbia doctor have risen to her defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I commend her on her stance and courage,&#8221; clinical pharmacist Denis Nawrocki, a member of Pharmacists for Life International, told <em> LifeSiteNews<\/em>. &#8220;She has every professional right to exercise her conscience and keep to her convictions. Congratulations are in order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story broke last week that Dr. Chantal Barry of the Westglen Medical Centre in Calgary does not prescribe \u2018the pill\u2019 after one irate woman posted to her Facebook account a picture of a sign on the facility\u2019s front desk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please be informed that the physician on duty today will not prescribe the birth control pill,&#8221; the sign reads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was shocked and outraged,&#8221; Joan Chand\u2019oiseau, 45, who posted the picture to Facebook, told <em>Postmedia News<\/em>. &#8220;I don\u2019t think her belief system should have any part in my reproductive health.&#8221; . . . 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