{"id":7317,"date":"2017-08-05T07:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:11:41","slug":"ontario-doctors-fight-law-forcing-them-to-help-kill-their-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7317","title":{"rendered":"Ontario doctors fight law forcing them to help kill their patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Interim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five doctors and three doctors&#8217; groups were in an Ontario court June 13-15 arguing a policy from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) violates their Charter rights to freedom of conscience and religion. The CPSO forces doctors to refer patients for euthanasia and abortion, even when it violates their conscience or religion. Kathleen Wynne&#8217;s Liberal government intervened on behalf of the college.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 CPSO policy requires that doctors who object on religious or conscience grounds to providing certain procedures such as abortion and euthanasia must give patients seeking these practices an effective referral. This means directly handing over a patient to another colleague who will follow through with an abortion or euthanasia request. The doctors argue this implicates them in the immoral practices to which they object. . . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinterim.com\/issues\/euthanasia-suicide\/ontario-doctors-fight-law-forcing-them-to-help-kill-their-patients\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interim Five doctors and three doctors&#8217; groups were in an Ontario court June 13-15 arguing a policy from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) violates their Charter rights to freedom of conscience and religion. The CPSO forces doctors to refer patients for euthanasia and abortion, even when it violates their conscience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontario doctors fight law forcing them to help kill their patients&#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":[77,32,162,217,9],"tags":[1492,1822,99,647,3886,385,1269,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-lawsuits","category-news","tag-albertos-polizogopoulos","tag-canadian-federation-of-catholic-physicians-societies-cfcps","tag-canadian-physicians-for-life","tag-catholic-civil-rights-league","tag-christian-medical-and-dental-association-canada","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-justice-centre-for-constitutional-freedoms","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Ontario doctors fight law forcing them to help kill their patients - 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=7317\" \/>\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 doctors fight law forcing them to help kill their patients - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Interim Five doctors and three doctors&#8217; groups were in an Ontario court June 13-15 arguing a policy from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) violates their Charter rights to freedom of conscience and religion. 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