{"id":9023,"date":"2019-01-31T22:19:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2019-04-12T22:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T05:28:02","slug":"958-days-without-medical-assistance-in-dying-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9023","title":{"rendered":"958 days without medical assistance in dying policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lack of government regulation leaves Nova Scotians without access to legal practice and beset by misinformation.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Coast<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Brooklyn Connolly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  It\u2019s been 958 days since Bill C-14 passed  federal legislation, yet Nova Scotia still lacks a program for medical  assistance in dying\u2014MAiD\u2014as well as MAiD policy and regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without policy, physicians and nurse  practitioners have no way of governing MAiD, creating a series of  loopholes and lack of general knowledge surrounding the subject. The  Nova Scotia Health Authority, meanwhile, has published false information  on its website and staff at St. Martha\u2019s hospital in Antigonish still  refuse to perform the assistance at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalhousie professor Jocelyn Downie has been  investigating the legal aspects of this for quite some time, and held an  open lecture last week in Halifax to present her information. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/halifax\/958-days-without-medical-assistance-in-dying-policy\/Content?oid=20420962\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of government regulation leaves Nova Scotians without access to legal practice and beset by misinformation. The Coast Brooklyn Connolly It\u2019s been 958 days since Bill C-14 passed federal legislation, yet Nova Scotia still lacks a program for medical assistance in dying\u2014MAiD\u2014as well as MAiD policy and regulation. Without policy, physicians and nurse practitioners have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;958 days without medical assistance in dying policy&#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],"tags":[1197,2572,3636],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-jocelyn-downie","tag-nova-scotia","tag-st-marthas-hospital-antigonish"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>958 days without medical assistance in dying policy - 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=9023\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"958 days without medical assistance in dying policy - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lack of government regulation leaves Nova Scotians without access to legal practice and beset by misinformation. 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