{"id":7486,"date":"2017-06-13T20:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:19:46","slug":"ontario-conscience-rights-case-goes-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7486","title":{"rendered":"Ontario conscience rights case goes to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Catholic Register<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Michael Swan<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013\u00a0In historic Osgoode Hall, 17 lawyers along with eight banker boxes of documents were arrayed three benches deep in front of Justice Herman J. Wilton-Siegel, Justice Richard A. Lococo and Justice Wendy W. Matheson before lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos made his opening arguments on behalf of the Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada and in favour of the Charter right of doctors to practice medicine according to their conscience.<\/p>\n<p>The CMDS, supported by the Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians Societies, Canadian Physicians for Life and the Catholic Civil Rights League, is in Ontario Superior Court of Justice June 13-15 challenging the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario over its &#8220;effective referral&#8221; policy. The policy forces doctors who object to abortion, birth control and assisted suicide to write an &#8220;effective referral&#8221; for the services to a willing and available doctor. Intervening on the side of the provincial regulatory body governing the practice of medicine is the Attorney General of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Register Michael Swan TORONTO \u2013\u00a0In historic Osgoode Hall, 17 lawyers along with eight banker boxes of documents were arrayed three benches deep in front of Justice Herman J. Wilton-Siegel, Justice Richard A. Lococo and Justice Wendy W. 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