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\"Podcast:A response to \u00a0 “Doctors can’t refuse to help a patient die – no matter what they say”<\/a>,\u00a0a column\u00a0by University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran.\u00a0 He refers to\u00a0 the alleged “corrosive hostility” of the Canadian Medical Association to “physician-assisted dying” and its “cowardly and stupid” position on the procedure, including support for physician freedom of conscience.\u00a0[Full text – Amir Attaran and the elves<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Podcast Contents<\/h2>\n

Introduction (00 – 01:40)<\/p>\n

Attaran: CMA siding with “bigots”\u00a0 (02:11 –\u00a0 4:50\u00a0\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Attaran: “they cannot<\/em> refuse”\u00a0 (05:23 – 06:33)<\/p>\n

What Professor Attaran left out\u00a0 (06:34 – 08:15\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Professor\u00a0 Attaran then and now\u00a0 (08:50 – 09:56)<\/p>\n

Law on abortion vs. law on homicide\u00a0 (09:57 – 11:32)<\/p>\n

A difference in perspective\u00a0 (11:33 \u00a0–\u00a013:12)<\/p>\n

What else Professor Attaran left out\u00a0 (13:13 – 18:38)<\/p>\n

Getting the facts backwards\u00a0 (19:11 – 20:50\u00a0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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