Posted on 02/25/2016 12:12:06 PM PST by wagglebee
OTTAWA, February 25, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – All publicly funded institutions – which includes Christian hospitals and nursing homes – must be forced to provide assisted suicide and euthanasia, according to recommendations of the federal parliamentary committee in its report released today.
But that “simply cannot happen and must not happen,” says Christian Elia, executive director Catholics Civil Rights League.
“It’s very simple, Catholic hospitals can never participate in an intrinsically evil act, they cannot be forced,” Elia told LifesiteNews. “This can never be carried out, and they can expect a fight to the bitter end.”
The all-party committee of 11 MPs and five senators was tasked with providing recommendations for drafting a law governing assisted suicide and euthanasia, after the Supreme Court struck down the existing prohibition in February 2015, a ruling that takes effect June 6, 2016.
The committee heard from about 60 witnesses and received over 100 written briefs since it was convened on January 18. Its February 25 report contains 21 recommendations for a legislative response to what it consistently refers to as “MAID” — medical assistance in dying.
The committee noted that “a number of witnesses argued, and the Committee also believes, that if a health care facility is publicly funded, it must provide MAID.”
It recommended that the government “work with the provinces and territories to ensure that all publicly funded health care institutions provide medical assistance in dying.”
“While it is wholly unacceptable that Catholic hospitals will be forced to participate in the intrinsically evil act,” Elia said, one slightly positive note is that to confine euthanasia and assisted suicide to publicly funded institutions means no private corporations will profit from killing vulnerable people."
The committee also recommends that healthcare workers who object to killing their patients through medical means must “at minimum…provide an effective referral.”
Elia says that “compelling the health care practitioner to set everything up, to actively participate in a referral, still compels that physician to act against their conscience, it is not a middle ground. It is basically compulsion to participate directly” in killing a patient.
As Dr Jeffrey Blackmer of the Canadian Medical Association pointed out to the committee in his February testimony, no other jurisdiction in the world mandates that an objecting physician provide an “effective referral.”
The committee also recommends that nurses and nurse practitioners be permitted to euthanize or assist their patients to commit suicide.
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I suppose they didn't like the negative connotations that would come from naming it Action T-4.
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What about Muslim hospitals?
Maybe Cruz can go tackle that.
Unbelievable.
It would be interesting to discuss the demographics of such a “Board.” i.e. race, religion, socioeconomic status, employment government versus private etc. etc.
Memo to self... don’t end up in a Canadian hospital.
Coming soon to the IPAB Boards here (unless we repeal obamacare)
Could they not simply transfer the patients to other secular hospitals?................
Of course... Single Payer Heathcare... like they have in Canada is great.
No one is going to die in the street... President Trump will make sure they die in a nice room under a ‘doctor’s’ care
We already have Medicare.
Your MAID is coming in now to clean your room!
Coming soon to a hospital near you if Hillary or Sanders get voted in.
“The committee also recommends that healthcare workers who object to killing their patients through medical means must “at minimum…provide an effective referral.—
This is similar to the “carved out accommodation” that Obamacare admins say they will provide to the Little Sisters of the Poor. I heard the director of the Heritage Foundation speak last night and he pointed out that Thomas Moore died because he would not sign a piece of paper. These nuns are willing to die and at least go out of business rather than deny their faith.
The other analogy Mr. Severino provided was the headquarters of PETA which we will assume has vending machines. Some hypothetical government agency decrees that meat shall be made available to all workers all the time and that it has to be in PETA’s vending machines. PETA of course pushes back but the gummint says, “don’t worry, we’ll stock the vending machines for you. Sign here.”
What in God's name is positive about that?
But it's only a matter of time before this madness spreads across the whole Northern Hemisphere.
See how well the Canadian Health Care system works?
While jr trudeau prays with the mussies in thier mosque
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