Protect Healthcare Professionals,
Protect Patients
On March 17, 2021, parliament passed legislation to expand euthanasia and assisted suicide to include people with disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental health concerns. Now, more vulnerable patients will proceed with a lethal injection because they feel like they have no other options. We need to ensure that there are healthcare professionals who will work hard to give patients hope and alternatives to lethal injection as a treatment. Some medical regulators are compelling healthcare professionals to make arrangements for euthanasia and assisted suicide assessments, even if the patient hasn’t been able to access other care options. If healthcare professionals don’t comply, they can be disciplined or even pushed out of medicine.
What will happen to patients if their doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other healthcare professional is forced out of medicine? We need your help to ensure that healthcare professionals can continue to care for their patients. Sign up below to participate in conscience campaigns across Canada.
Protect Healthcare Professionals,
Protect Patients
On March 17, 2021, parliament passed legislation to expand euthanasia and assisted suicide to include people with disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental health concerns. Now, more vulnerable patients will proceed with a lethal injection because they feel like they have no other options. We need to ensure that there are healthcare professionals who will work hard to give patients hope and alternatives to lethal injection as a treatment. Some medical regulators are compelling healthcare professionals to make arrangements for euthanasia and assisted suicide assessments, even if the patient hasn’t been able to access other care options. If healthcare professionals don’t comply, they can be disciplined or even pushed out of medicine.
What will happen to patients if their doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other healthcare professional is forced out of medicine? We need your help to ensure that healthcare professionals can continue to care for their patients. Sign up below to participate in conscience campaigns across Canada.
Conscience Campaigns
On March 17, 2021, parliament passed legislation to expand euthanasia and assisted suicide to include people with disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental health concerns.
What will happen to patients if their doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other healthcare professional is forced out of medicine? We need your help to ensure that healthcare professionals can continue to care for their patients. Write a letter to legislators using the links below.
The Issue
As of June 17, 2016, it is now legal for patients to request physician-assisted suicide in Canada. Despite limited conscience protection in federal legislation (Bill C-14) and freedom of conscience enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms, there are still provinces where conscience rights are at risk.
In Ontario, for example, the College and Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) has abandoned thousands of doctors who cannot provide referrals for medical assistance in dying.
In Manitoba, the government has passed Bill 34, a legislation that protects doctors, nurses and pharmacists from having to perform or aid in the provision of assisted suicide against their conscience. This bill passed with support from all parties after Manitoba legislators received over 14,000 letters through our Call for Conscience campaign.
Each provincial government needs to be encouraged to create legislation that ensures that doctors, nurses and pharmacists have their conscience rights protected.
While health care workers respect the decisions of patients, they entered into medicine to save lives, not end them.
Support Conscience Rights
Let the government know you support our proposal to protect conscience rights.
Protecting Conscience Rights
The Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience represents a group of like-minded organizations that are committed to protecting conscience rights for healthcare practitioners and facilities.
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