{"id":7737,"date":"2017-05-28T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:22:13","slug":"arizona-strengthens-conscience-protections-for-health-care-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7737","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Strengthens Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New law aims to ensure doctors and nurses aren&#8217;t fired for their beliefs if assisted suicide is ever legalized in the state.<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>National Catholic Register<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Health care providers and institutions opposed to assisted suicide gained more legal protections under a new Arizona law that aims to help ensure doctors and nurses aren&#8217;t fired for their beliefs if the practice is ever legalized.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 1439 was &#8220;an important rights-of-conscience bill,&#8221; according to the bishops of the Arizona Catholic Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;S.B. 1439 will help protect health care providers not wanting to participate in services causing the death of their patients,&#8221; the state&#8217;s four bishops said March 24, adding they were grateful that it has become law. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/arizona-strengthens-conscience-protections-for-health-care-providers\">[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New law:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/laws\/usa-arizona.aspx#Chapter_11.2_-_Prohibition_on_discrimination_against_health_care_entities\">Prohibition on discrimination against health care entities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New law aims to ensure doctors and nurses aren&#8217;t fired for their beliefs if assisted suicide is ever legalized in the state. National Catholic Register PHOENIX \u2014 Health care providers and institutions opposed to assisted suicide gained more legal protections under a new Arizona law that aims to help ensure doctors and nurses aren&#8217;t fired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arizona Strengthens 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":[77,16,162,9,295,28],"tags":[73],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-protection-of-conscience-laws","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-religious-freedom","category-usa","tag-arizona"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Arizona Strengthens Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers - 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=7737\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arizona Strengthens Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New law aims to ensure doctors and nurses aren&#8217;t fired for their beliefs if assisted suicide is ever legalized in the state. 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