{"id":9754,"date":"2019-10-18T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9754"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T00:14:34","slug":"medical-professionals-concerned-their-ethical-rights-may-be-eroded-by-health-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9754","title":{"rendered":"Medical professionals concerned their ethical rights may be eroded by health reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1newsnow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Nicole Bremner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n            The New Zealand Medical Council says it\u2019s \u2018up to the challenge\u2019 of three controversial law changes currently before Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n            A new law enabling the terminally ill to access assisted dying, along with reform to cannabis and abortion laws, has sparked widespread and sometimes heated public debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>             \u201cI think these (proposals) represent a potential challenge to the medical profession,\u201d says Dr Curtis Walker, Chair of the NZ Medical Council. \u201cBut I know the medical profession is up to it.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/medical-professionals-concerned-their-ethical-rights-may-eroded-health-reforms\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1newsnow Nicole Bremner The New Zealand Medical Council says it\u2019s \u2018up to the challenge\u2019 of three controversial law changes currently before Parliament. A new law enabling the terminally ill to access assisted dying, along with reform to cannabis and abortion laws, has sparked widespread and sometimes heated public debate. \u201cI think these (proposals) represent a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medical professionals concerned their ethical rights may be eroded by health reforms&#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":[46,77,162,7,43,9],"tags":[3830],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-euthanasia","category-law","category-new-zealand","category-news","tag-new-zealand-medical-council"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Medical professionals concerned their ethical rights may be eroded by health reforms - 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=9754\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medical professionals concerned their ethical rights may be eroded by health reforms - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1newsnow Nicole Bremner The New Zealand Medical Council says it\u2019s \u2018up to the challenge\u2019 of three controversial law changes currently before Parliament. 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