{"id":6657,"date":"2016-03-07T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:27:32","slug":"6657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6657","title":{"rendered":"Doctor affiliated with Catholic hospital speaks out against assisted-death ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0The Globe and Mail<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Laura Kane<\/p>\n<p>A doctor affiliated with a Catholic hospital in a small British Columbia community says the facility&#8217;s likely ban on assisted-dying is a violation of terminally ill patients&#8217; charter rights.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jonathan Reggler said St. Joseph&#8217;s General Hospital is the only hospital in the Comox Valley and as a Catholic facility it generally forbids doctors from helping patients die, although a formal policy has not yet been adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Reggler said terminally ill patients in hospital who want a doctor&#8217;s help to die will either be denied that right or have to be moved 50 kilometres to the nearest hospital in Campbell River. . . [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/british-columbia\/doctor-affiliated-with-catholic-hospital-speaks-out-against-assisted-death-ban\/article29063169\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0The Globe and Mail Laura Kane A doctor affiliated with a Catholic hospital in a small British Columbia community says the facility&#8217;s likely ban on assisted-dying is a violation of terminally ill patients&#8217; charter rights. Dr. Jonathan Reggler said St. Joseph&#8217;s General Hospital is the only hospital in the Comox Valley and as a Catholic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctor affiliated with Catholic hospital speaks out against assisted-death ban&#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":[77,32,643,162,9,295],"tags":[2223,1560,3337,3296,2149,3295],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-catholic-health-alliance-of-canada","tag-dying-with-dignity-canada","tag-jonathan-reggler","tag-providence-health-care-bc-canada","tag-shanaaz-gokool","tag-st-josephs-general-hospital-comox-bc"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Doctor affiliated with Catholic hospital speaks out against assisted-death ban - 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=6657\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctor affiliated with Catholic hospital speaks out against assisted-death ban - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0\u00a0The Globe and Mail Laura Kane A doctor affiliated with a Catholic hospital in a small British Columbia community says the facility&#8217;s likely ban on assisted-dying is a violation of terminally ill patients&#8217; charter rights. 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