{"id":9171,"date":"2018-12-17T22:38:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9171"},"modified":"2019-04-18T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T05:42:21","slug":"alarming-gap-in-assisted-dying-in-antigonish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9171","title":{"rendered":"Alarming gap in assisted dying in Antigonish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em> The Chronicle Herald <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\"> Jocelyn Downie <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Today (Dec. 17) marks two and a half years  since the coming into force of Canada\u2019s federal legislation on medical  assistance in dying (MAiD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Nova Scotia, MAiD has now been requested  in about 400 cases and provided in about 200. Unfortunately, there is  one particularly notable gap in access to MAiD: St. Martha\u2019s Regional  Hospital, a publicly funded faith-based institution in Antigonish,  refuses to allow MAiD within its walls. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechronicleherald.ca\/opinion\/opinion-alarming-gap-in-assisted-dying-in-antigonish-268714\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle Herald Jocelyn Downie Today (Dec. 17) marks two and a half years since the coming into force of Canada\u2019s federal legislation on medical assistance in dying (MAiD). In Nova Scotia, MAiD has now been requested in about 400 cases and provided in about 200. Unfortunately, there is one particularly notable gap in access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alarming gap in assisted dying in Antigonish&#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":[77,32,643,4,162,295],"tags":[184,1197,3636],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-religious-freedom","tag-hospitals","tag-jocelyn-downie","tag-st-marthas-hospital-antigonish"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Alarming gap in assisted dying in Antigonish - 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=9171\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alarming gap in assisted dying in Antigonish - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chronicle Herald Jocelyn Downie Today (Dec. 17) marks two and a half years since the coming into force of Canada\u2019s federal legislation on medical assistance in dying (MAiD). 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