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February 8, 2018

Court decision on assisted suicide referrals opens door for other challenges

The CCRL was an intervenor on the side of the Christian Medical and Dental Society and five named doctors in a suit filed against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, which insists that doctors who oppose assisted death provide a referral for patients who wish to die. Seeking an appeal is up to the CMDS. Their decision is expected the week of Feb. 11.
While doctors who lost their right to practise medicine according to their conscience contemplate a legal appeal, a prominent pro-euthanasia organization suspects faith-based hospitals, nursing homes and hospices may be next to face demands to accommodate euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Published in Canada
January 31, 2018

Doctors who object to assisted suicide must give referrals, court rules

The judges found that while objecting doctors may have to change the way in which they practice medicine, by switching to hospital or group-based practice or by practicing in areas unlikely to elicit a request for assisted suicide such as sports medicine, the policy does not banish them from medicine.
A doctor’s conscience takes a back seat to a patient’s right to have medical procedures such as assisted suicide and abortion, Ontario’s Divisional Court ruled Jan. 31.
Published in Canada