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MPs: Stand Up for Our Conscientious Doctors and Nurses!

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Support Bill C-268

To the Minister of Justice and all Members of Parliament:

I would like to voice my support for Bill C-268, “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (intimidation of health care professionals)”.

This Bill would ensure Canada’s doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care providers are able to do their jobs with integrity, without being coerced into acting against their conscience.

I value my health care professionals, along with their knowledge, training, expertise, and discernment. I respect the decision that many of them make to refuse to participate in euthanasia and assisted suicide (also known as “MAiD”).

Many health care providers assert that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a violation of medical ethics. This is the long-standing position of the World Medical Association. This is also enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath, the traditional standard of medical ethics. Many also express religious and moral objections over taking the life of another human being.

Some medical professionals object so strongly that they would rather leave their profession than participate in any way in these homicidal acts.

No doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or other health care providers should feel pressured to violate their conscience. They should never be at risk of discrimination or reprisals in their employment for simply acting in accord with their training, ethics, and sincerely-held beliefs.

Therefore, in support of our Canadian medical professionals, and in consideration of Canada’s Charter of Rights and its respect for conscience, I am asking you to lend your support to Bill C-268.

Bill C-268 does more than give lip service to medical professionals’ conscience rights, it puts those rights into law and penalizes abusers.

Sincerely,

[ The Undersigned ]

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Audrey D. Estevan, SK
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:35am
Wanda O. Orangeville, ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:35am
Michael S. Saskatoon , SK
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:34am
Anonymous Port Colborne , ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:32am
Garry S. CALEDONIA, ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:31am
Richard F. North Lancaster, ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:30am
Anonymous Port Colborne , ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:29am
Murray G. Calgary, AB
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:28am
Ba R. Toronto, ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:22am
Anonymous St Thomas, ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:22am
Katherine B. Burlington, ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:21am
Catherine K. Okotoks, AB
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:20am
According to the World Medical Association, “No physician should be forced to participate in euthanasia or assisted suicide, nor should any physician be obliged to make referral decisions to this end.” According to the Hippocratic Oath, which represents the traditional standard of medical ethics, doctors pledge: “I will neither
John M. Meadow Lake , SK
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:16am
Anonymous Egbert, ON
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:14am
Euthanasia is wrong. Forcing Health Professionals to partake in ending one’s life totally unacceptable. Furthermore allowing people to ask fo be euthanized is deplorable. We die when we die.
Kenneth H. Brandon, NT
Apr 2, 2021 - 09:13am