{"id":7739,"date":"2017-03-27T18:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:36:37","slug":"open-letter-to-all-the-members-of-provincial-parliament-of-ontario-on-conscience-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7739","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to all the Members of Provincial Parliament of Ontario on conscience rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>News Release<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cccb.ca\/site\/images\/stories\/pdf\/jointmpplettermarch2717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> open letter<\/a> has been sent to the members of Ontario&#8217;s Provincial Parliament by His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, together with a number of other religious leaders, asking the Government of Ontario to enshrine into law the protection of conscience rights for health-care practitioners in Ontario who refuse to participate in the administering of euthanasia. The open letter was released on 27 March 2017 with respect to provincial Bill 84 (<em>Medical Assistance in Dying Statute Law Amendment Act<\/em>). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiansforconscience.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Coalition of HealthCARE and Conscience<\/a> have also developed a resource which explains the current problem with Ontario&#8217;s proposed euthanasia legislation and the lack of conscience protection rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Government&#8217;s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs held a public hearing on this matter this past 23 March. Cardinal Collins, the Most Reverend Ronald P. Fabbro, Bishop of London and President of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, and Dr. Moira McQueen, Director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, were present during the hearing and provided an oral presentation advocating for conscience rights. Several doctors and nurses were also present advocating for legislation to protect conscience rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese of Toronto released a video today of Cardinal Collins explaining the moral issues at hand in relation to conscience rights in Ontario and Bill 84.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bAZ9_KaU2yo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cccb.ca\/site\/images\/stories\/pdf\/mppbgbill84march17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nLink to the resource by the Coalition of HealthCARE and<br \/>\nConscience (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Release Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops An open letter has been sent to the members of Ontario&#8217;s Provincial Parliament by His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, together with a number of other religious leaders, asking the Government of Ontario to enshrine into law the protection of conscience rights for health-care practitioners in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open letter to all the Members of Provincial Parliament of Ontario on 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":[77,32,643,162,10,760,295,29],"tags":[1274,3235,1273,2868],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news-releases","category-proposed-laws","category-religious-freedom","category-videos","tag-canadian-catholic-bioethics-institute","tag-coalition-for-healthcare-and-conscience-canada","tag-moira-mcqueen","tag-thomas-collins"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Open letter to all the Members of Provincial Parliament of Ontario on conscience rights - 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