{"id":7701,"date":"2017-04-13T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:31:05","slug":"ontario-liberals-give-doctors-no-choice-but-to-refer-patients-for-assisted-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7701","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Liberals give doctors no choice but to refer patients for assisted death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Lifesite News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Lianne Laurence<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">TORONTO, April 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) \u2014 A Liberal-dominated committee has refused to add conscience rights protection to Ontario&#8217;s bill regulating euthanasia and assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The finance and economic affairs committee voted down Progressive Conservative health critic Jeff Yurek&#8217;s proposed conscience rights amendments to Bill 84 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal move leaves conscientiously objecting doctors with no protection against a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario&#8217;s policy forcing them to give patients requesting euthanasia an &#8220;effective referral&#8221; \u2014 that is, to a willing and accessible colleague for the purposes of accomplishing the act. . . 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The Liberal move leaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontario Liberals give doctors no choice but to refer patients for assisted death&#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":[77,32,162,9,760,19],"tags":[2867,1822,99,3886,3235,385,2725,2303,1202,293,2868],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-proposed-laws","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-assembly-of-catholic-bishops-of-ontario","tag-canadian-federation-of-catholic-physicians-societies-cfcps","tag-canadian-physicians-for-life","tag-christian-medical-and-dental-association-canada","tag-coalition-for-healthcare-and-conscience-canada","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-concerned-ontario-doctors","tag-larry-worthen","tag-ontario-medical-association","tag-referral","tag-thomas-collins"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Ontario Liberals give doctors no choice but to refer patients for assisted death - 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=7701\" \/>\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 Liberals give doctors no choice but to refer patients for assisted death - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lifesite News Lianne Laurence TORONTO, April 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) \u2014 A Liberal-dominated committee has refused to add conscience rights protection to Ontario&#8217;s bill regulating euthanasia and assisted suicide. 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