{"id":6345,"date":"2015-10-19T07:36:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:33:45","slug":"beware-of-assisted-suicide-zealots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6345","title":{"rendered":"Beware of assisted-suicide zealots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Will Johnston<\/p>\n<p>For at least a few more months, the Canadian medical system will continue to be a safe space, free of assisted suicide and euthanasia. But all that is about to change. In order to ensure our hospitals and palliative care centres remain places where patients feel safe and secure, we must respect doctors\u2019 conscience rights, rather than listen to activists who seek to impose their one-size-fits-all policy on the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the palliative care centres in Quebec that refuse to have anything to do with euthanasia, for reasons of medical judgment and ethics, have apparently angered Jean-Pierre Menard, the lawyer who helped write Quebec\u2019s euthanasia law, Bill 52. The act specifically states that palliative care centres are not required to provide euthanasia service \u2014 but maybe to Menard, those were just soothing words to get the bill passed. Now Menard says money should be taken away from palliative services that won\u2019t provide euthanasia on their premises. And the minister of health, Gaetan Barrette, has threatened to revoke the hospital privileges of doctors who won\u2019t comply. . . . 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In order to ensure our hospitals and palliative care centres remain places where patients feel safe and secure, we must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beware of assisted-suicide zealots&#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":[77,32,4,162,19],"tags":[1825,2076,1064,1197,410,2390],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-act-respecting-end-of-life-care","tag-gaetan-barette","tag-jean-pierre-menard","tag-jocelyn-downie","tag-quebec","tag-will-johnston"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Beware of assisted-suicide zealots - 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=6345\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beware of assisted-suicide zealots - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National Post Will Johnston For at least a few more months, the Canadian medical system will continue to be a safe space, free of assisted suicide and euthanasia. 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