Mon Oct 17, 2022 – 6:14 pm EDTMon Oct 17, 2022 – 6:15 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — Recently, the World Medical Association (WMA) upheld, after much debate, the position to respect a physician’s conscience by allowing them to refuse to participate in euthanasia.
Physicians from Canada and other jurisdictions had proposed that the WMA change its position on conscience rights, which would have effectively forced physicians to provide a referral for euthanasia to patients where the practice is legal, even if the physician felt the practice was a betrayal of their own moral and religious convictions.
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In fact, Canada’s parliament recently defeated conscience rights Bill C-230 based on a party-line vote, with most of the MPs for the Conservative Party of Canada, including leader Pierre Poilievre, supporting the conscience rights of medical professionals, and nearly every Liberal, New Democratic Party (NDP) and Bloc Québécois MP voting against it.
The WMA victory underlines the importance of continuing the fight to protect the conscience rights of medical professionals. If conscience rights cannot be protected at the federal level, then we must renew
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