{"id":5899,"date":"2014-07-08T23:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T06:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:02:52","slug":"o-canada-glorious-and-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5899","title":{"rendered":"O Canada, Glorious and Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Healthcare Network<\/p>\n

Reproduced with permission<\/em><\/p>\n

Cristina Alarcon<\/p>\n

The wrath of the media has fallen upon a handful of doctors\u2014most recently a female Calgary practitioner\u2014for politely informing their patients (as per College requirements) that they will not prescribe the pill.<\/p>\n

Nevermind that there is no lack of doctors or clinics within a short distance who will comply. Ah, the politics of birth control!<\/p>\n

The most recent attack comes from a retired ob\/gyn who appears to have forgotten the lyrics of our beloved anthem (See\u00a0O Canada! We must stand on guard for women’s reproductive rights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Where is the glorious and free?<\/p>\n

Forgotten is the reality that we live in a pluralistic, democratic society, and that true Canadian liberalism disagrees with the dogmatic view that all must think alike.<\/p>\n

To force a doctor to act against his conscience is to open wide the doors to state-controlled medicine<\/cite><\/p>\n

Should freedom of conscience and religious belief not be protected in a liberal democracy? Should a woman’s so-called reproductive rights trump the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by our Canadian Charter (see section 2 [a]<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As\u00a0well stated<\/a>\u00a0by blogger Brian Lilly, only a revisionist such as Trudeau Jr. would twist the words of his own father to claim that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em> was meant to grant women abortion rights.<\/p>\n

But no matter what your stance on abortion, there are certain rights without which society as we know it would cease to be.<\/p>\n

Thus, the rights of freedom of conscience and religion are inalienable and universal.<\/p>\n

They derive from the unique dignity of the human person and constitute the bedrock on which all other human rights rest\u2014the foundation of every truly free society.<\/p>\n

No need to remind ourselves that the suppression of these rights contributed to the most gruesome monstrosities ever carried out by otherwise good doctors under the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n

To his credit, the ob\/gyn who wrote the O Canada piece does defend the wearing of turbans and openness to diversity. He also wisely states that if one is moral, one does not deliberately harm.<\/p>\n

But to harm the conscience of people by forcing them to participate in something they find deplorable, even if legal, is to break the very fabric of society.<\/p>\n

It would force doctors to kill patients if that were legal; it would force them to prescribe the newest medical fad diet pills; it would force those who (for non-religious reasons) don’t believe in pumping women with exogenous hormones to do so, no matter what the known cancer and other health risks.<\/p>\n

And to force a doctor to act against his conscience is to open wide the doors to state-controlled medicine, reducing the professional to a well-paid, educated puppet-on-a-string.<\/p>\n

Cristina Alarcon is a Vancouver pharmacist and writer. She holds a master’s degree in bioethics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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