{"id":7721,"date":"2017-04-04T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:53:13","slug":"ontario-must-amend-its-assisted-dying-legislation-to-recognize-conscience-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7721","title":{"rendered":"Ontario must amend its assisted dying legislation to recognize conscience rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>National Newswatch<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">John Milloy<\/p>\n<p>Canadians ask a lot of our physicians \u2013 years of education, long hours, complex cases and demanding patients (full disclosure \u2013 I am married to a doctor).<\/p>\n<p>Since June of last year, we have also been asking them to help some of their patients take their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how you feel about assisted dying, you have to admit that having a role in the act is a burden that few of us would ever welcome. And yet as a society we seem to forget that doctors are no different. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2017\/04\/04\/ontario-must-amend-its-assisted-dying-legislation-to-recognize-conscience-rights\/#.Waxm6pCWzcs\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Newswatch John Milloy Canadians ask a lot of our physicians \u2013 years of education, long hours, complex cases and demanding patients (full disclosure \u2013 I am married to a doctor). Since June of last year, we have also been asking them to help some of their patients take their own lives. No matter how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontario must amend its assisted dying legislation to recognize conscience rights&#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":[77,32,4,162,760],"tags":[572,385,2713,2876,384,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-proposed-laws","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-jeff-blackmer","tag-john-milloy","tag-ontario","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Ontario must amend its assisted dying legislation to recognize conscience rights - 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=7721\" \/>\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 must amend its assisted dying legislation to recognize conscience rights - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National Newswatch John Milloy Canadians ask a lot of our physicians \u2013 years of education, long hours, complex cases and demanding patients (full disclosure \u2013 I am married to a doctor). 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