{"id":6867,"date":"2016-06-01T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T02:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:47:22","slug":"catholic-groups-believe-conscience-rights-will-be-respected-on-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6867","title":{"rendered":"Catholic groups believe conscience rights will be respected on assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Catholic Register<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Michael Swan<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Despite Bill C-14 providing no conscience protection for institutions, Catholic health-care providers expect governments will respect their right to opt out of assisted suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>\u201cThe fact that it\u2019s not in Bill C-14 doesn\u2019t mean that you can look at it as an interpretation that therefore conscience doesn\u2019t count,\u201d said David Nash, chair of the Catholic Health Association of Ontario. \u201cYou have to look at it from the point of view that the federal government doesn\u2019t want to step on provincial toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nash spoke as the final vote on Bill C-14, the federal government\u2019s assisted suicide legislation, was set to be held in the House of Commons. The bill passed May 31 and was sent to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The history in Ontario would suggest provincial authorities will respect the Catholic legacy in health care and avoid pushing Catholic hospitals, hospices and nursing homes into either providing or allowing assisted suicide on their premises, said Nash, a London, Ont., lawyer. . . <strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/22425-catholic-groups-believe-conscience-rights-will-be-respected-on-assisted-suicide\" target=\"_blank\">Full Text<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Register Michael Swan Despite Bill C-14 providing no conscience protection for institutions, Catholic health-care providers expect governments will respect their right to opt out of assisted suicide. \u201cThe fact that it\u2019s not in Bill C-14 doesn\u2019t mean that you can look at it as an interpretation that therefore conscience doesn\u2019t count,\u201d said David Nash, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catholic groups believe conscience rights will be respected on assisted suicide&#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],"tags":[3315,184,2307,2361],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-catholic-health-association-canada","tag-hospitals","tag-jane-philpott","tag-murray-rankin"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Catholic groups believe conscience rights will be respected on assisted suicide - 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