To understand the position of conscientiously objecting doctors, consider the following questions.
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Only 15 to 30 percent of dying Canadians have access to or receive hospice palliative care or end-of life services, dedicated to addressing all forms of suffering — physical, psychological and existential — affecting patients nearing death and their families. And yet, all healthcare facilities may be required to offer physician-hastened death, i.e., euthanasia and assisted suicide.
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The Winnipeg Centre Liberal MP is conflicted about the bill following a rash of suicides in 2 communities.
Continue reading Robert-Falcon Ouellette questions impact of doctor-assisted dying on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples
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Certainly standard modern definitions of medicine, such as 'the science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and other damage to the body or mind' (American Heritage Dictionary), no longer properly identify medicine where 'medical assistance in dying' refers not to palliative care but to deliberate killing.
Continue reading A layman’s guide to the basic distinctions one ought to keep clear despite persistent attempts at obfuscation
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Ontario physician first to announce plans to quit medicine due to demand for referral for euthanasia
Moral imperialism by state authorities in Canada is beginning to take its toll.
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