{"id":7695,"date":"2017-04-20T19:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:45:30","slug":"politicians-wrestle-with-doctors-consciences-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7695","title":{"rendered":"Politicians wrestle with doctors&#8217; consciences in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Conscientious objection needs to be protected<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercatornet.com\/careful\/view\/politicians-wrestle-with-doctors-consciences-in-victoria\/19660\"> <em>MercatorNet<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Reproduced with permission<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Paul Russell<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Paul_Russell\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Panel on &#8220;assisted dying&#8221; makes ready to release its interim report sometime in April,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/doctors-will-have-right-to-refuse-assisted-death-requests-under-planned-reforms-20170415-gvlihy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Age<\/em><\/a> newspaper turned its attention to the matter of conscience whether a doctor may refuse to take part in any action that would bring about the premature and deliberate death of a person.<\/p>\n<p>Conscience &#8211; or the ability to draw upon one&#8217;s own personal belief system in making a decision about an action &#8211; plays out at different levels in any debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide. . . 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