{"id":6968,"date":"2016-11-08T20:43:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6968"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:26:55","slug":"sacrificing-hospitals-and-freedom-of-conscience-along-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6968","title":{"rendered":"Sacrificing hospitals, and freedom of conscience along with\u00a0it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Douglas Farrow, Will Johnston<\/p>\n<p>In 1639 three nuns got off the boat from France and began to build Hotel Dieu in Montreal, the first hospital in Canada. Over time, some 275 hospitals were built across our country by self-sacrificing Catholics who faithfully served the sick and dying out of love and compassion, without regard to their patients\u2019 faith or lack of faith. Succeeding generations of Canadians have been grateful for the spiritual and physical care they have received at such places.<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul\u2019s Hospital in Vancouver is one of those Catholic hospitals. In keeping with its faith-based principles, it respects the Catholic sense of human dignity \u2014 meaning, among other things, that it does not perform abortions or participate in assisted suicide or euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Wiebe, a physician who is also an abortion and euthanasia activist, together with a lawyer, Richard Owens, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2zm7z-59XI\">criticized<\/a> St. Paul\u2019s because it would not euthanize one of its dying patients, Ian Shearer. . .\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/sacrificing-hospitals-and-freedom-of-conscience-along-with-it\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Post Douglas Farrow, Will Johnston In 1639 three nuns got off the boat from France and began to build Hotel Dieu in Montreal, the first hospital in Canada. Over time, some 275 hospitals were built across our country by self-sacrificing Catholics who faithfully served the sick and dying out of love and compassion, without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sacrificing hospitals, and freedom of conscience along with\u00a0it&#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":[32,643,162,9,295],"tags":[561,1443,2389,184,2393,3298,2390],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-british-columbia","tag-douglas-farrow","tag-ellen-wiebe","tag-hospitals","tag-ian-shearer","tag-st-pauls-hospital-vancouver-bc-canada","tag-will-johnston"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Sacrificing hospitals, and freedom of conscience along with\u00a0it - 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=6968\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sacrificing hospitals, and freedom of conscience along with\u00a0it - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National Post Douglas Farrow, Will Johnston In 1639 three nuns got off the boat from France and began to build Hotel Dieu in Montreal, the first hospital in Canada. 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