{"id":7528,"date":"2017-05-19T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:34:08","slug":"bill-allowing-ontario-doctors-to-reject-assisted-suicide-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7528","title":{"rendered":"Bill Allowing Ontario Doctors to Reject Assisted Suicide Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ontario doctor: &#8220;Making a referral [for assisted suicide] is being complicit in the act of killing a patient&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Church Militant<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Bradley Eli<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchmilitant.com\/\">ChurchMilitant.com<\/a>) &#8211; A bill, allowing Ontario&#8217;s doctors to opt out of assisted suicide, has failed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Ontario&#8217;s legislative assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/25221-ontario-conscience-rights-bill-voted-down\"> voted down<\/a> Bill 129, which would&#8217;ve shielded doctors from having to refer suicidal patients to doctors, who would help kill them. . .\u00a0 Bill 129 would have protected doctors from prosecution when they refused to be complicit in killing patients.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.orglaw\/proposed\/canada-ontario-001.aspx\">The bill <\/a>reads,\u00a0&#8220;A member shall not be subject to (liability or disciplinary penalty) for refusing to participate, directly or indirectly, in medical assistance in dying.&#8221; . . . \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchmilitant.com\/news\/article\/bill-allowing-ontario-doctors-to-reject-assisted-suicide-fails\">[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario doctor: &#8220;Making a referral [for assisted suicide] is being complicit in the act of killing a patient&#8221; Church Militant Bradley Eli TORONTO (ChurchMilitant.com) &#8211; A bill, allowing Ontario&#8217;s doctors to opt out of assisted suicide, has failed to pass. On Thursday, Ontario&#8217;s legislative assembly voted down Bill 129, which would&#8217;ve shielded doctors from having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Allowing Ontario Doctors to Reject Assisted Suicide Fails&#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":[77,32,162,9,760],"tags":[2725,2513,2715,384,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-proposed-laws","tag-concerned-ontario-doctors","tag-jeff-yurek","tag-kathleen-wynne","tag-ontario","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Bill Allowing Ontario Doctors to Reject Assisted Suicide Fails - 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=7528\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bill Allowing Ontario Doctors to Reject Assisted Suicide Fails - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ontario doctor: &#8220;Making a referral [for assisted suicide] is being complicit in the act of killing a patient&#8221; Church Militant Bradley Eli TORONTO (ChurchMilitant.com) &#8211; A bill, allowing Ontario&#8217;s doctors to opt out of assisted suicide, has failed to pass. 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