{"id":7557,"date":"2017-05-04T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:54:56","slug":"physicians-conscience-and-assisted-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7557","title":{"rendered":"Physicians, conscience, and assisted dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By requiring that physicians make referrals for assisted dying, Ontario is forcing them to leave medicine or abandon their ethical framework.<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Policy Options<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Deina Warren,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Deina_Warren\">*<\/a> Derek Ross<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Derek_Ross\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all the jurisdictions worldwide that permit some form of assisted suicide, Ontario stands alone in mandating that physicians participate in it. . . [C]ompelling physicians to participate in MAID results in the state deciding what everyone should believe; and second, it undermines physicians&#8217; moral integrity, a foundational component of medical ethics and principled health care. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal079.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By requiring that physicians make referrals for assisted dying, Ontario is forcing them to leave medicine or abandon their ethical framework. Policy Options Deina Warren,* Derek Ross* Of all the jurisdictions worldwide that permit some form of assisted suicide, Ontario stands alone in mandating that physicians participate in it. . . [C]ompelling physicians to participate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physicians, conscience, and assisted dying&#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":[77,32,162,8,19],"tags":[385,2748,2749,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-legal-commentary","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-deina-warren","tag-derek-ross","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Physicians, conscience, and assisted dying - 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=7557\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Physicians, conscience, and assisted dying - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By requiring that physicians make referrals for assisted dying, Ontario is forcing them to leave medicine or abandon their ethical framework. Policy Options Deina Warren,* Derek Ross* Of all the jurisdictions worldwide that permit some form of assisted suicide, Ontario stands alone in mandating that physicians participate in it. . . 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