{"id":7447,"date":"2017-06-20T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T01:28:56","slug":"st-boniface-ban-on-medically-assisted-death-a-breach-of-charter-rights-doctor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7447","title":{"rendered":"St. Boniface ban on medically assisted death a breach of charter rights, doctor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Board of Winnipeg Catholic hospital overturned policy granting assisted death in rare circumstances<\/h6>\n<p><strong>CBC News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Erin Brohman<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing president of the St. Boniface Hospital medical staff believes the Winnipeg hospital&#8217;s policy to deny\u00a0medically assisted death violates the charter\u00a0rights of some of the most vulnerable patients.<\/p>\n<p>Medical\u00a0assistance in dying, or MAID, will\u00a0not be provided at St. Boniface Hospital after the board, which manages the hospital, voted against it on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u00a0Marcus Blouw, a former member of the St. Boniface\u00a0board, disagrees that the current\u00a0board\u00a0\u2014\u00a0largely compiled of those without\u00a0clinical expertise, he said \u2014\u00a0should be able to overrule the decisions of patients and clinicians. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/st-boniface-maid-1.4170082\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board of Winnipeg Catholic hospital overturned policy granting assisted death in rare circumstances CBC News Erin Brohman The outgoing president of the St. Boniface Hospital medical staff believes the Winnipeg hospital&#8217;s policy to deny\u00a0medically assisted death violates the charter\u00a0rights of some of the most vulnerable patients. Medical\u00a0assistance in dying, or MAID, will\u00a0not be provided at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St. Boniface ban on medically assisted death a breach of charter rights, doctor says&#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":[77,32,643,162,7,9,295],"tags":[2475,2649,184,2514,3335,3306,2648],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-law","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-catholic-health-corp-of-manitoba","tag-catholic-health-ethics-guide","tag-hospitals","tag-kelvin-goertzen","tag-marcus-blouw","tag-st-boniface-general-hospital-winnipeg-man-canada","tag-winnipeg-regional-health-authority"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>St. Boniface ban on medically assisted death a breach of charter rights, doctor says - 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=7447\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"St. Boniface ban on medically assisted death a breach of charter rights, doctor says - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Board of Winnipeg Catholic hospital overturned policy granting assisted death in rare circumstances CBC News Erin Brohman The outgoing president of the St. Boniface Hospital medical staff believes the Winnipeg hospital&#8217;s policy to deny\u00a0medically assisted death violates the charter\u00a0rights of some of the most vulnerable patients. 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