{"id":9450,"date":"2019-09-05T19:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T02:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9450"},"modified":"2019-09-09T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T02:47:07","slug":"doctor-fired-after-suing-catholic-hospital-over-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9450","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Fired after Suing Catholic Hospital over Assisted Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

National Review<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wesley J. Smith <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Colorado doctor Barbara Morris wants to assist her patient\u2019s suicide. She works at Centura Health, a Catholic\/Seventh Day Adventist-owned hospital that prohibits its employees from participating in assisted suicide, legal in Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Morris sued to be allowed to participate in her patient\u2019s suicide by doctor \u2014 which would not happen in the hospital. The hospital responded by firing Morris for violating the terms of her contract by seeking to engage in acts in the context of her employment that violate the hospital\u2019s religiously based moral beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Morris contends she can\u2019t be prohibited from assisting her patient\u2019s suicide because the Colorado law only allows health care facilities to opt-out if the suicide will occur on-site. The hospital is seeking shelter in the Trump administration\u2019s medical conscience protection<\/a> policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Expect more of these kinds of disputes as many U.S. hospitals are Catholic or otherwise religiously affiliated with churches that reject abortion and assisted suicide doctrinally. From the Kaiser Health News<\/em> story:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More doctors and patients in the country are providing and receiving health care subject to religious restrictions. About 1 in 6 acute care beds nationally is in a hospital that is Catholic-owned or -affiliated<\/a>, said Lois Uttley, a program director for the consumer advocacy group Community Catalyst. In Colorado, one-third of the state\u2019s hospitals operate under Catholic guidelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\n The ACLU has already sued several Catholic hospitals over the last few years seeking to force them to violate Church doctrine on issues ranging from sterilization, to abortion, to sex-change surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Medical conscience disputes are going to become far more common as health care becomes immersed in our accelerating cultural conflicts and vexing questions of federalism. Bottom line: The ultimate goal of those who seek to force medical professionals and institutions to violate their religious beliefs, I believe, is to drive pro-lifers and Hippocratic Oath-adherents<\/a> out of medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Review Wesley J. Smith Colorado doctor Barbara Morris wants to assist her patient\u2019s suicide. She works at Centura Health, a Catholic\/Seventh Day Adventist-owned hospital that prohibits its employees from participating in assisted suicide, legal in Colorado. 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