{"id":7553,"date":"2017-05-15T22:13:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T05:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:12:46","slug":"the-nature-and-necessity-of-conscience-protections-for-health-care-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7553","title":{"rendered":"The Nature and Necessity of Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>From <em>Protecting the Least of Among Us:\u00a0 The Enduring Universal Wisdom of the Church on Euthanasia<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Keynote Address to Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute<\/strong><br \/>\nCanadian Catholic Bioethics Institute<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Gerhard Cardinal M\u00fcller<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Gerhard_Cardinal_M\u00fcller\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the gravity of the threat posed by legal euthanasia, it is essential that we work for its reversal in the law.\u00a0 But in the meantime, we must take immediate measures to protect the rights of health care providers who refuse to collaborate in or facilitate access to euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>This is not simply a Catholic issue.\u00a0 No one who trains and takes an oath to care for the sick should be pressed into ending the lives of the very people that they have promised to serve. . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/religion\/religion052.aspx\">[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Protecting the Least of Among Us:\u00a0 The Enduring Universal Wisdom of the Church on Euthanasia Keynote Address to Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute Gerhard Cardinal M\u00fcller* Given the gravity of the threat posed by legal euthanasia, it is essential that we work for its reversal in the law.\u00a0 But in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Nature and Necessity of Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers&#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":[77,643,162],"tags":[1274,1782],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","tag-canadian-catholic-bioethics-institute","tag-cardinal-gerhard-muller"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>The Nature and Necessity of Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers - 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