{"id":5881,"date":"2015-04-13T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:41:18","slug":"tunnel-vision-at-the-college-of-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5881","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel vision at the College of Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Post<\/em><\/p>\n

Sean Murphy*\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has adopted a policy requiring physicians who have moral or ethical objections to a procedure to make an \u201ceffective referral\u201d of patients to a colleague who will provide it, or to an agency that will arrange for it. In 2008, amidst great controversy, the Australian state of Victoria passed an abortion law with a similar provision.<\/p>\n

After the law passed, a Melbourne physician, morally opposed to abortion, publicly announced that he had refused to provide an abortion referral for a patient. This effectively challenged the government and medical regulator to prosecute or discipline him. They did not. The law notwithstanding, no one dared prosecute him for refusing to help a woman 19 weeks pregnant obtain an abortion because she and her husband wanted a boy, not a girl.<\/p>\n

They obtained the abortion without the assistance of the objecting physician, and they could have done the same in Ontario. College Council member Dr. Wayne Spotswood, himself an abortion provider, told Council that everyone 15 or 16 years old knows that anyone refused an abortion by one doctor \u201ccan walk down the street\u201d to obtain the procedure elsewhere.<\/p>\n

So why did the College working group that drafted the demand for \u201ceffective referral\u201d urge College Council to adopt a policy that so clearly has the potential to make the College look ridiculous? . . .[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Post Sean Murphy*\u00a0 The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has adopted a policy requiring physicians who have moral or ethical objections to a procedure to make an \u201ceffective referral\u201d of patients to a colleague who will provide it, or to an agency that will arrange for it. 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