{"id":9634,"date":"2019-05-14T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9634"},"modified":"2019-09-25T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T05:00:41","slug":"the-caricature-of-the-conscientiously-objecting-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9634","title":{"rendered":"The caricature of the conscientiously objecting physician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objecting doctors are the bad guys, obstructing care.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How will disciplining conscientious doctors or driving them from the profession improve health care?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Physicians&#8217; Alliance Against Euthanasia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Catherine Ferrier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8377\" style=\"width: 150px; float:left;margin-right:1em\" src=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nurseweary-1.jpg\" alt=\"Weary physician\">Canadian doctors who object to directly causing the death of their patients, once the near-totality of the profession, have since the enactment of laws permitting \u201cmedical assistance in dying\u201d suddenly become outliers. Polling data is unclear, polls are often biased, and there is no doubt that the euthanasia lobby had the ear of media, opinion leaders and politicians long before we knew what they were up to. Be that as it may, we are now told that euthanasia\/MAiD is an accepted \u2018medical treatment\u2019 that must be provided to those who request it. Many provincial medical colleges, though not requiring doctors to euthanize patients themselves, do expect, to different degrees, that we facilitate their being euthanized by someone else. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/ethics\/ethics056.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objecting doctors are the bad guys, obstructing care. How will disciplining conscientious doctors or driving them from the profession improve health care? Physicians&#8217; Alliance Against Euthanasia Catherine Ferrier Canadian doctors who object to directly causing the death of their patients, once the near-totality of the profession, have since the enactment of laws permitting \u201cmedical assistance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The caricature of the conscientiously objecting physician&#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":[77,32,508,162,19],"tags":[632],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-ethical-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-dr-catherine-ferrier"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>The caricature of the conscientiously objecting physician - 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=9634\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The caricature of the conscientiously objecting physician - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Objecting doctors are the bad guys, obstructing care. 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