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Posted on 09/17/2015 9:40:24 AM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, September 17, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Ontario’s governing body for doctors issued an official policy last week that forces doctors unwilling to kill patients or help them commit suicide to directly refer them to a doctor who would.
The policy, titled Planning for and Providing Quality End-of-Life Care, was quietly released by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario September 10, seven months after Canada’s highest court ruled that doctors could actively participate in bringing about the deaths of their patients. Patients cannot request death until the ruling comes into effect February 2016.
In the “managing conflicts” section dealing with “conscientious objection,” the College’s new policy at first glance appears to allow for a doctor to refuse to participate in killing a patient, stating: “Physicians who limit their practice on the basis of moral and/or religious grounds must comply with the College’s Professional Obligations and Human Rights policy.”
But the College’s Professional Obligations and Human Rights policy to which doctors must comply when refusing a service because of a conscientious or religious-based objection stipulates that such doctors make “an effective referral to another health-care provider.”
Lawyers such as Larry Worthen and Albertos Polizogopoulos have argued that forcing a doctor to refer a patient is as “morally problematic” as doing the procedure itself.
“If a physician has the moral or religious conviction that abortion or euthanasia is the taking of an innocent human life, then the physician who formally refers a patient to the abortionist or euthanist has contributed to the taking of that life,” they argued in an article on the topic published on LifeSiteNews in December.
In March two doctors’ groups, the Christian Medical and Dental Society and the Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians, launched a legal challenge against Ontario’s at-that-time newly minted “effective referral” policy, asking the courts to throw it out. The case is still ongoing. The College had passed the controversial policy despite a consultation with the public showing that 77 percent of 32,000 responses affirmed a doctor’s right “to refuse to provide a patient with a treatment or procedure because it conflicts with the physician’s religious or moral beliefs.”
The College has stated that doctors who refuse to comply with the “effective referral” policy could find themselves standing before a human rights’ tribunal where they could face substantial fines.
Exactly right!
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Isn’t a strange coincidence how liberal policies always seem to lead to force and coercion somehow?
First, I will do no harm...........................Then I will kill you............................
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You watch these same policy makers throw a royal fit when THEY are the ones lying in a bed with a doctor standing over them with orders for euthenasia
Isn’t a strange coincidence how liberal policies always seem to lead to force and coercion somehow?
It’s coming here, Christians. Be prepared for poverty, jail and/or unemployment.
Any reason why they don’t just publish a list of the doctors who will kill you?
And of course, they should publish a list of the doctors who will not kill you.
That way, the doctors who refuse to murder someone on religious grounds will not
have to go the Pontius Pilate washing of hands route, since the dying person will
not be referred to the murdering doctors by the religious doctors.
They can simply pick a doctor from the proper list.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has stated that doctors who refuse to comply with the “effective referral” policy could find themselves standing before a human rights’ tribunal where they could face substantial fines.
Doctors are KILLERS.
That’s the ticket.
GET A LICENSE TO KILL
I think the fastest way to stop euthanasia in its tracks in the US would be to propose an *expansion* to it that would drive liberals and leftists absolutely nuts.
If someone is on death row in a state prison, or sentenced to life with no possibility of parole, they should be able to volunteer for euthanasia, under some strong guidelines.
Pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia liberals, who revel in the killing of babies and helpless people who cannot resist, tend to freak out at the very idea of killing vicious and evil multiple murderers. They never accept the idea of capital punishment for the monsters, while dancing in the blood of the innocent.
This is outrageous.
You just can't make this stuff up. Ughhhh!
Leftwingism is INSANITY.
My grandfather was among the first at Omaha Beach and he went all the way to the concentration camps of Buchenwald and later, the Elbe River with an M1 Garand in tow. He most likely shot and killed people fighting for a regime who supported same ideas like these. We fought a war around the world to show the world we must make a stand against these evil notions. Now we are seeing these pop up and it makes me ask the question Linus asked Charlie Brown from the special of the same name about Normandy and Flander’s Fields, “What have we learned, Charlie Brown? “ We might have to pick up the Garand again and redo Normandy on Lakes Erie and Ontario, heck, we need it on the Potomac.
As a patient, I think I have a right to a doctor who is not a psychopath that is willing to kill people at whatever age.
Abortionists and doctors willing to euthanize their patients have no empathy—no ability to sense another’s pain or emotions—and should not be anywhere near patients. They are psychopaths.
It is disturbing that such an apparently high number of psychopaths get into medical school.
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