{"id":6811,"date":"2016-05-02T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2018-03-09T09:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T17:18:27","slug":"project-proposes-amendment-to-canadian-euthanasiaassisted-suicide-bill-to-stop-coercion-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"Project proposes amendment to Canadian euthanasia\/assisted suicide bill to stop coercion, intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amendment to Bill C-14 to prevent coerced participation in inflicting death<\/h2>\n

News Release<\/strong>
\nFor immediate release<\/em><\/p>\n

Protection of Conscience Project<\/p>\n

The Protection of Conscience Project has proposed an amendment to Bill C-14<\/span><\/u><\/a> to prevent coercion, intimidation or other forms of pressure intended to force citizens to become parties to homicide or suicide.\u00a0 The amendment is set out in a submission to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill C-14<\/span><\/u><\/a> is the bill proposed by\u00a0Canada’s Liberal government to implement the 2015 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/em>.\u00a0It will legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia administered by medical an nurse practitioners.\u00a0 However, the Bill\u00a0as introduced does nothing to\u00a0prevent intimidation and coercion of objecting health care workers to force them to participate in or facilitate the procedures by referral or similar means.<\/p>\n

The Project’s proposed amendment is an addition that does not otherwise change the text of\u00a0 Bill C-14<\/span><\/u><\/a>. Nor does it touch the eligibility criteria proposed by Carter<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/em>, nor the criteria or procedural safeguards recommended by the Special Joint Committee or Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group.\u00a0 It simply establishes that, as a matter of law and\u00a0Canadian public policy, no one can be compelled to become a party to homicide or suicide, or punished or disadvantaged for refusing to do so.<\/p>\n

The Protection of Conscience Project does not take a position on the acceptability of euthanasia or physician assisted suicide or the merits of legalization of the procedures. The Project’s concern is to ensure that health care workers who object to providing or participating in homicide and suicide for reasons of conscience or religion are not compelled to do so or punished or disadvantaged for refusal.<\/p>\n

“Coercion, intimidation or other forms of pressure intended to force citizens to become parties to homicide or suicide is both an egregious violation of fundamental freedoms and a serious threat to society that justifies the use of criminal law,” states the submission.<\/p>\n

“Other countries have demonstrated that it is possible to provide euthanasia and physician assisted suicide without suppressing fundamental freedoms.\u00a0 None of them require ‘effective referral,’ physician-initiated ‘direct transfer’ or otherwise conscript objecting physicians into euthanasia\/assisted suicide service.”<\/p>\n

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Contact:<\/strong>
\nSean Murphy, Administrator
\nProtection of Conscience Project
\nEmail: protection@consciencelaws.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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