{"id":6666,"date":"2016-03-16T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2018-03-06T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T05:54:38","slug":"doctor-assisted-dying-why-religious-conscience-must-be-part-of-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6666","title":{"rendered":"Doctor-assisted dying: Why religious conscience must be part of the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Globe and Mail<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Lorna Dueck<\/p>\n<p>The competing rights of freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and access to physician-assisted death are at an impasse in Canada. When the Supreme Court last year struck down Criminal Code prohibitions on doctor-assisted death, the issue of conscience rights jumped urgently into the national discussion. A religiously informed conscience complicates things further, and thousands of health-care professionals and hundreds of religiously based health-care institutions are demanding that their Charter rights be protected.<\/p>\n<p>If the recommendations from the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/parliamentarians-recommend-few-restrictions-on-doctor-assisted-dying\/article28902659\/\"> parliamentary committee<\/a> for new legislation are accepted and approved by the June 6 deadline, Canada would be by far the most liberal country in the world for medical assistance in dying. It would also become the most repressive on conscience rights, because the committee recommended that conscientious objectors refer death-seeking patients to another doctor or health-care facility \u2013 something that many people informed by a sense of duty to God and neighbour cannot do. . . [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/doctor-assisted-dying-why-religious-conscience-must-be-part-of-the-debate\/article29252574\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail Lorna Dueck The competing rights of freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and access to physician-assisted death are at an impasse in Canada. When the Supreme Court last year struck down Criminal Code prohibitions on doctor-assisted death, the issue of conscience rights jumped urgently into the national discussion. A religiously informed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctor-assisted dying: Why religious conscience must be part of the debate&#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":[77,32,460,162,295],"tags":[3886,3235,2303,1604],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary-religion","category-euthanasia","category-religious-freedom","tag-christian-medical-and-dental-association-canada","tag-coalition-for-healthcare-and-conscience-canada","tag-larry-worthen","tag-lorna-dueck"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Doctor-assisted dying: Why religious conscience must be part of the debate - 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=6666\" \/>\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-assisted dying: Why religious conscience must be part of the debate - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Globe and Mail Lorna Dueck The competing rights of freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and access to physician-assisted death are at an impasse in Canada. 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