{"id":9777,"date":"2019-10-22T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2019-12-23T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:02:03","slug":"alberta-catholic-doctors-fear-erosion-of-conscience-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9777","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Catholic doctors fear erosion of conscience rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Grandin Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Andrew Ehrkamp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        Many Catholic doctors in Alberta are worried that they will soon be forced to provide referrals for medically assisted suicide, says the head of the provincial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlukesguild.com\/\">St. Luke\u2019s Physicians\u2019 Guild<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         Dr. Mary Ellen Haggerty says a recent Ontario court decision sets a precedent that will lead to a legal requirement that any doctor in Alberta must provide that referral. For Catholics, such a referral would make them morally complicit in the act itself. To date the doctors have been protected by the Charter rights to freedom of conscience and freedom of religion if they refused to participate in assisted suicide and euthanasia, as well as abortion and other controversial procedures. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/grandinmedia.ca\/alberta-catholic-doctors-fear-erosion-of-conscience-rights\/\">Full  text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandin Media Andrew Ehrkamp Many Catholic doctors in Alberta are worried that they will soon be forced to provide referrals for medically assisted suicide, says the head of the provincial St. Luke\u2019s Physicians\u2019 Guild. Dr. Mary Ellen Haggerty says a recent Ontario court decision sets a precedent that will lead to a legal requirement that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9777\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alberta Catholic doctors fear erosion of conscience rights&#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":[46,77,32,643,162,9,295],"tags":[54,3843,3842],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-alberta","tag-dan-williams","tag-mary-ellen-haggerty"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Alberta Catholic doctors fear erosion of conscience rights - 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=9777\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alberta Catholic doctors fear erosion of conscience rights - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Grandin Media Andrew Ehrkamp Many Catholic doctors in Alberta are worried that they will soon be forced to provide referrals for medically assisted suicide, says the head of the provincial St. Luke\u2019s Physicians\u2019 Guild. 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