{"id":7476,"date":"2017-06-14T20:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:19:37","slug":"canadian-nurse-forced-out-for-refusing-to-participate-in-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7476","title":{"rendered":"Canadian nurse forced out for refusing to participate in euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Lifesite News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Pete Baklinski<\/p>\n<p>PALMER RAPIDS, Ontario, June 14, 2017 (<a href=\"http:\/\/lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) &#8212; A Canadian nurse no longer has her job helping the sick and the elderly after she was told that she must either assist patients who wanted to kill themselves using the country&#8217;s new euthanasia law, or resign.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jean Martin, a Registered Nurse who worked in middle-management as a Homecare Coordinator in Ontario, said she became a nurse in the late 1980s to help the &#8220;vulnerable and the struggling,&#8221; not to be a link in a chain that would ultimately lead to a patient&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you imagine being a nurse and being told that you have to help kill someone? That&#8217;s so against the philosophy of nursing and it&#8217;s so against the heart of the healthcare person,&#8221; she told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/canadian-nurse-forced-out-of-practice-after-refusing-to-participate-in-euth\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifesite News Pete Baklinski PALMER RAPIDS, Ontario, June 14, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) &#8212; A Canadian nurse no longer has her job helping the sick and the elderly after she was told that she must either assist patients who wanted to kill themselves using the country&#8217;s new euthanasia law, or resign. Mary Jean Martin, a Registered Nurse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canadian nurse forced out for refusing to participate in euthanasia&#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":[77,32,162,9,19],"tags":[208,2674,261,384,1466],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-julian-savulescu","tag-mary-jean-martin","tag-nurses","tag-ontario","tag-udo-schuklenk"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Canadian nurse forced out for refusing to participate in euthanasia - 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=7476\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canadian nurse forced out for refusing to participate in euthanasia - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lifesite News Pete Baklinski PALMER RAPIDS, Ontario, June 14, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) &#8212; A Canadian nurse no longer has her job helping the sick and the elderly after she was told that she must either assist patients who wanted to kill themselves using the country&#8217;s new euthanasia law, or resign. 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