{"id":7510,"date":"2017-05-27T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:39:30","slug":"on-medical-conscience-and-assisted-suicide-good-news-from-vermont-and-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7510","title":{"rendered":"On Medical Conscience and Assisted Suicide, Good News from Vermont and Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Evolution News &amp; Science Today<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Wesley J. Smith<\/p>\n<p>With the attacks on medical conscience increasing, here&#8217;s some fine\u00a0news. Alliance Defending Freedom has successfully obtained a consent decree that protects doctors in Vermont from having to counsel about assisted suicide to legally qualified patients if they are morally or religiously opposed. <a href=\"https:\/\/adflegal.blob.core.windows.net\/web-content-dev\/docs\/default-source\/documents\/case-documents\/vermont-alliance-for-ethical-healthcare-v.-hoser\/vermont-alliance-for-ethical-healthcare-v-hoser---consent-agreement.pdf?sfvrsn=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> From the decree<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"blockquote\">Plaintiffs and similarly situated medical providers do not have a legal or professional obligation to counsel and refer patients for the Patient Choice at End of Life process [e.g., assisted suicide].<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good. . . <a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/2017\/05\/on-medical-conscience-and-assisted-suicide-good-news-from-vermont-and-maine\/\">[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution News &amp; Science Today Wesley J. Smith With the attacks on medical conscience increasing, here&#8217;s some fine\u00a0news. Alliance Defending Freedom has successfully obtained a consent decree that protects doctors in Vermont from having to counsel about assisted suicide to legally qualified patients if they are morally or religiously opposed. From the decree: Plaintiffs and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Medical Conscience and Assisted Suicide, Good News from Vermont and Maine&#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":[77,7,9,28],"tags":[57,3316,2699,515,362],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-law","category-news","category-usa","tag-alliance-defending-freedom","tag-compassion-and-choices-usa","tag-maine","tag-vermont","tag-wesley-j-smith"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>On Medical Conscience and Assisted Suicide, Good News from Vermont and Maine - 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=7510\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On Medical Conscience and Assisted Suicide, Good News from Vermont and Maine - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evolution News &amp; Science Today Wesley J. 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