{"id":9947,"date":"2019-12-10T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2020-01-01T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T02:10:32","slug":"rules-for-doctors-pharmacists-tightened-in-new-religious-discrimination-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9947","title":{"rendered":"Rules for doctors, pharmacists tightened in new religious discrimination bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sydney Morning Herald<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\"> Judith Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n            A pharmacist could refuse to dispense contraception and a doctor could refuse to provide fertility treatment under the government&#8217;s proposed new religious discrimination laws, provided they declined to provide that particular service to all patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>             Attorney-General Christian Porter said the second draft of the religious discrimination bill, released on Tuesday, would allow doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists and psychologists to conscientiously object as long as it was &#8220;to a procedure, not a person&#8221;. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/rules-for-doctors-pharmacists-tightened-in-new-religious-discrimination-bill-20191210-p53imo.html\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Morning Herald Judith Ireland A pharmacist could refuse to dispense contraception and a doctor could refuse to provide fertility treatment under the government&#8217;s proposed new religious discrimination laws, provided they declined to provide that particular service to all patients. Attorney-General Christian Porter said the second draft of the religious discrimination bill, released on Tuesday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rules for doctors, pharmacists tightened in new religious discrimination bill&#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":[75,30,650,9,760,295],"tags":[3917,521,3916,3918,3915],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-reproduction","category-australia","category-contraception","category-news","category-proposed-laws","category-religious-freedom","tag-anna-brown","tag-australian-medical-association","tag-christian-porter","tag-equality-australia","tag-scott-morrison"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Rules for doctors, pharmacists tightened in new religious discrimination bill - 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=9947\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rules for doctors, pharmacists tightened in new religious discrimination bill - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sydney Morning Herald Judith Ireland A pharmacist could refuse to dispense contraception and a doctor could refuse to provide fertility treatment under the government&#8217;s proposed new religious discrimination laws, provided they declined to provide that particular service to all patients. 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