{"id":6876,"date":"2016-06-10T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:10:08","slug":"ontario-hospitals-allowed-to-opt-out-of-assisted-dying-raising-conscientious-accommodation-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6876","title":{"rendered":"Ontario hospitals allowed to opt out of assisted dying, raising conscientious accommodation concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>National Post<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Sharon Kirkey<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u00a0will allow hospitals to opt out of providing assisted death within their walls, provoking charges from ethicists that conscientious accommodation has gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the country, a divide is already shaping up, with half of voluntary euthanasia cases in Quebec reportedly occurring in Quebec City hospitals \u2014 and few in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The situation highlights the messy state of the emotionally charged debate as the provinces wrestle with the new reality of doctor-assisted death, and as the Senate takes a proposed new law further than the governing Liberals are prepared to go. . . <strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/ontario-hospitals-allowed-to-opt-out-of-assisted-dying-raising-conscientious-accommodation-concerns\" target=\"_blank\">Full Text<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Post Sharon Kirkey Ontario\u00a0will allow hospitals to opt out of providing assisted death within their walls, provoking charges from ethicists that conscientious accommodation has gone too far. Elsewhere in the country, a divide is already shaping up, with half of voluntary euthanasia cases in Quebec reportedly occurring in Quebec City hospitals \u2014 and few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontario hospitals allowed to opt out of assisted dying, raising conscientious accommodation concerns&#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":[77,32,162,9],"tags":[2328,632,1573,2375,184,1064,2373,1574,2118,2374,384,3284,410,2372],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-british-columbia-civil-liberties-association-bccla","tag-dr-catherine-ferrier","tag-eric-hoskins","tag-ewa-sidorowicz","tag-hospitals","tag-jean-pierre-menard","tag-josh-paterson","tag-kerry-bowman","tag-louis-roy","tag-mcgill-university-health-centre","tag-ontario","tag-physicians-alliance-for-total-refusal-of-euthanasia-canada","tag-quebec","tag-transfer-of-care"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Ontario hospitals allowed to opt out of assisted dying, raising conscientious accommodation concerns - 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=6876\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ontario hospitals allowed to opt out of assisted dying, raising conscientious accommodation concerns - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National Post Sharon Kirkey Ontario\u00a0will allow hospitals to opt out of providing assisted death within their walls, provoking charges from ethicists that conscientious accommodation has gone too far. 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