{"id":9619,"date":"2019-05-28T20:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T03:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9619"},"modified":"2019-09-25T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:04:28","slug":"forced-referral-and-freedom-of-religion-vs-freedom-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9619","title":{"rendered":"Forced Referral and Freedom of Religion vs Freedom of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Without freedom of conscience our free democracy would not exist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The Epoch Times<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Shawn Whatley, MD<a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.orgauthors.aspx#Shawn_Whatley\">*<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent court decision in Ontario missed  the mark when it ignored the impact forced referral has on freedom of  conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 15, the Ontario appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.orglaw\/blog\/?p=9261\">ruled<\/a>  that doctors must give patients a referral for euthanasia, abortion,  and other contentious issues, regardless of what an individual doctor  thinks about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court battle started after the medical  regulator in Ontario, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario  (CPSO), created a policy that forced doctors to refer for procedures,  regardless of doctors&#8217; deeply held convictions of religion or  conscience. Doctors who refuse would risk being fined and\/or losing  their license to practice medicine. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal097.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without freedom of conscience our free democracy would not exist The Epoch Times Shawn Whatley, MD* A recent court decision in Ontario missed the mark when it ignored the impact forced referral has on freedom of conscience. On May 15, the Ontario appeals court ruled that doctors must give patients a referral for euthanasia, abortion, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forced Referral and Freedom of Religion vs Freedom of Conscience&#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":[32,217,8],"tags":[385,293,1602],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-lawsuits","category-legal-commentary","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-referral","tag-shawn-whatley"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Forced Referral and Freedom of Religion vs Freedom of Conscience - 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=9619\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forced Referral and Freedom of Religion vs Freedom of Conscience - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Without freedom of conscience our free democracy would not exist The Epoch Times Shawn Whatley, MD* A recent court decision in Ontario missed the mark when it ignored the impact forced referral has on freedom of conscience. 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