Why would the College of Physicians & Surgeons
of Ontario insist doctors be forced to refer for treatment that goes
against their conscience? As MP Maurice Vellacott recently stated, there
is “no other jurisdiction that currently allows euthanasia or assisted
suicide imposes such an obligation.”
Requiring
doctors to act against their conscience and/or be complicit in an act
they find morally reprehensible is a surely not a road we wish them to
travel. If I knew my doctor could so easily leave his conscience by the
side of the road when treating me for “A,” then how could I ever trust
him when treating me for “B”?
When
doctors signed up to become doctors, they did so knowing their freedom
of conscience rights were sacred. Creating a policy that tramples on
these fundamental rights is wrong and dangerous.
Patricia Maloney, Ottawa.
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