{"id":7530,"date":"2017-05-19T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:33:56","slug":"ontario-conscience-rights-bill-voted-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7530","title":{"rendered":"Ontario conscience rights bill voted down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Catholic Register<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Michael Swan<\/p>\n<p>In a strict party lines vote, a bill that would have shielded doctors and other health care providers from punishment for refusing to refer their patients on for assisted suicide was voted down at Queen&#8217;s Park on May 18.<\/p>\n<p>In a recorded vote, 39 Liberals and New Democrats voted against Bill 129, Jeff Yurek&#8217;s private members&#8217; bill aimed at protecting the conscience rights of doctors and other health care professionals. All 23 Progressive Conservatives backed their health critic&#8217;s bill.<\/p>\n<p>Focus now shifts to the Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada&#8217;s court challenge to the forced referral policy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Three days of oral arguments are scheduled for Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Divisional Court June 13-15. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/25221-ontario-conscience-rights-bill-voted-down\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Register Michael Swan In a strict party lines vote, a bill that would have shielded doctors and other health care providers from punishment for refusing to refer their patients on for assisted suicide was voted down at Queen&#8217;s Park on May 18. In a recorded vote, 39 Liberals and New Democrats voted against Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontario conscience rights bill voted down&#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":[3886,385,2725,1573,2513,384,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-proposed-laws","tag-christian-medical-and-dental-association-canada","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-concerned-ontario-doctors","tag-eric-hoskins","tag-jeff-yurek","tag-ontario","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Ontario conscience rights bill voted down - 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=7530\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ontario conscience rights bill voted down - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Catholic Register Michael Swan In a strict party lines vote, a bill that would have shielded doctors and other health care providers from punishment for refusing to refer their patients on for assisted suicide was voted down at Queen&#8217;s Park on May 18. 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