{"id":6882,"date":"2016-06-07T19:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2018-03-04T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T02:02:08","slug":"lets-not-become-belgium-when-it-comes-to-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6882","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s not become Belgium when it comes to assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine . . .\u00a0 being the first hospital in human history to be closed for refusing to kill patients in its care.<\/h2>\n

National Post<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Barbara Kay<\/p>\n

In February, the archbishop of Edmonton announced that in the event of legalized euthanasia, physicians and other health-care workers of Covenant Health Hospital would not be participating in the active termination of patients\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

In response last month, Alberta\u2019s associate health minister Brandy Payne stated that Covenant Health\u2019s conscientious objection would be respected, and that patients requesting life termination there would be transferred. That seems reasonable. After all, when conscripted soldiers refuse to go to war for reasons of conscience, they are not asked to provide their own combat replacement.<\/p>\n

In Quebec, by contrast, where euthanasia is already in effect, any Christian institution that refuses to comply with the legislation will be shut down. (Imagine the dubious distinction of being the first hospital in human history to be closed for refusing to kill patients in its care.)<\/p>\n

Ethics-based tension in the medical community is but one of many concerns we must acknowledge to be inherent in Bill C-14. . . [Full\u00a0 Text<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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