Since October's hearing on the issue of euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide the Supreme Court of Canada has been working towards announcing their ruling. No official date has been set for the announcement but many observers are getting the sense that it is coming close. Their ruling could fling wide the doors to this issue across Canada. We are praying that will not happen.
Please join us in keeping our Supreme Court Justices in prayer as they work towards this landmark ruling.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BY MP MAURICE VELLACOTT, JANUARY 8TH, 2015
No legal “duty to refer” for euthanasia or assisted suicide anywhere in the world
OTTAWA – In anticipation of the possible striking down of Canada’s laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide (pending the Supreme Court’s decision in the Carter case), and given the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s (CPSO’s) draft policy “Professional Obligations and Human Rights” i which, if passed, would require Ontario physicians to make referrals for controversial medical procedures regardless of their conscientious/religious convictions, Member of Parliament Maurice Vellacott today issued the following statement:
I am deeply concerned about the assault on the fundamental freedoms of Ontario’s doctors should CPSO’s policy forcing doctors to make referrals for morally objectionable “treatments” pass. If the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down Canada’s current laws on euthanasia or assisted suicide, then CPSO’s policy would mean Ontario’s physicians would have a “duty to refer” patients for treatments intended to kill the patient....click here to read entire release.
MORE INFORMATION:
National Post Article: Supreme Court preparing landmark ruling on euthanasia and assisted suicide
Lifesitenews Article: Canadian Supreme Court to hear arguments in euthanasia case Oct. 15