Physicians for Life
Written on 4 Mar, 2016 at 17:28 in
Euthanasia, Physicians for Life | Author:
Steve Weatherbe Special to The Interim Christian doctors opposed to assisted suicide or euthanasia must refer suicidal patients to doctors willing to kill them under a controversial policy ratified Jan. 26 by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons’ governing council. One critic calls the decision a “rubber stamp” while a spokesman for Christian and other pro-life doctors says his clients will sue the College for violating doctors’ freedom of conscience.
The policy mandates that doctors administer euthanasia or assisted suicide – Physician Assisted Dying or PAD ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Aug, 2015 at 6:46 in
Physicians for Life, Religion | Author:
Paul Tuns Three physicians groups have submitted their concerns to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan about its conscientious objection policy which they say would force some doctors to choose between their livelihood and violating their conscience if the policy is implemented without changes.
The Christian Medical and Dental Society, Canadian Physicians for Life, and the Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians’ Societies, submitted their suggested changes to the policy that was approved in principle by the Council of the CPSS in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Apr, 2015 at 8:30 in
Human rights, Physicians for Life | Author:
Paul Tuns On March 6, the ruling council of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons voted 21-3 for a new Professional Obligations and Human Rights policy that could require doctors in the province to commit abortion or euthanasia.
The new policy, announced in a press release, “requires physicians to provide their patients with an effective referral to another health-care provider for those services the physician chooses not to provide for reasons of conscience or religion.”
However, it also requires doctors to provide services ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2014 at 9:24 in
Physicians for Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Steve Weatherbe Special to The Interim The deadline has closed and the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons now has some 1,800 submissions to peruse as it reviews its 2008 policy on the conflict between doctors’ conscience rights and patients’ rights to service.
“We’ve got medical groups and religious groups and women’s groups,” says OCPS media relations officer Prithi Yelaja. The college, she says, has given itself till the first quarter of 2015 to read them all and respond.
But 32,882 have already weighed in on the online ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 May, 2014 at 17:34 in
Physicians for Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Three family doctors at an Ottawa health clinic are being criticized for refusing to prescribe birth control to their patients.
The controversy started when Kate D. went to CareMedics Elmvale Acres walk-in clinic to get a prescription. She was surprised when the receptionist handed her a letter by the attending physician, Dr. Edmond Kyrillos, stating that he only provides Natural Family Planning due to “medical judgment as well as professional ethical concerns and religious values.” The note also states that Dr. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Mar, 2011 at 13:38 in
Announcements, Features, Physicians for Life | Author:
Paul Tuns Media gets story wrong about conscience,
misses need for informed consent
On Feb. 4, the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons released revised guidelines for dealing with patients who face an unplanned pregnancy. The early media reports erroneously stated that doctors who refused to carry out an abortion had to refer them to one who would.
The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix reported that the preamble to the new protocol says ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Oct, 2008 at 10:42 in
Columnist, Physicians for Life, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
Pro-life physicians in Ontario should beware: The Ontario Human Rights Commission has served notice that any physician who refuses to perform an abortion could be charged with violating the ban on discrimination on the basis of sex in section 1 of the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jan, 2008 at 16:03 in
Physicians for Life | Author:
Megan Middleton
Medical students attend Physicans for Life event in Toronto
Canadian Physicians for Life recently sponsored 56 medical students and interns to attend the organization’s fourth pro-life forum in five years. The students, representing 11 Canadian universities, came to Toronto for the three-day event, held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide that was hosted by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Aug, 2000 at 9:00 in
Physicians for Life, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Linda Wegner
By Linda Wegner
The Interim
In June, pharmacists from across Canada gathered in Saskatoon for their annual convention. Maria Bezecki and Mike Izzoti, both pharmacists active in the pro-life movement, travelled to the event with serious concerns about the erosion of their professional right to refuse to dispense drugs based on their freedom of conscience and religion. Nothing happened to alleviate those fears, they said.
Bezecki, spokesperson for Concerned Pharmacists for Conscience, believes that pharmacists are simply asking for the same rights ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Mar, 2000 at 9:33 in
Euthanasia, Physicians for Life | Author:
Alex Schadenberg
Who gets the last word? New ideas about euthanasia ($10, Canadian Physicians for Life 10150 Gillanders Rd Chilliwack BC V2P 6H4 tel. (604) 794-3772, fax (604) 794-3960, e-mail: info@physiciansfor life.ca)
Review by Alex Schadenberg
The Interim
Canadian Physicians for Life have produced a timely 23-minute video to explain what euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are and to dispel the myths surrounding these issues. Most pro-life groups have yet to become well versed in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Nov, 1995 at 12:43 in
Health Risks, Physicians for Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Pharmacists for Life International is disputing mainstream media reports of “safe and quick” home abortion techniques using drugs already available for other uses.
The reports say an American researcher has discovered that a combination of methotrexate (a drug used in chemotherapy) and misoprostol (a gastr-intestinal medicine) can induce abortions in 96 per cent of women during their first nine weeks of pregnancy. The methotrexate is said to destabilize the uterine lining, while the misoprostol prompts contractions which expel the unborn child.
“This ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Nov, 1995 at 10:35 in
Physicians for Life, Pro-Life | Author:
Tony Gosgnach You probably won’t find many physicians who, for eleven years, can picket a hospital they
work in and get away with it.
The 63-year-old family physician has been pounding the pavement with a “Justice for the Unborn” sign in front of Henderson Hospital in Hamilton, Ont. every Friday morning for just that long. His work is a response to the fact that the hospital is one of two in the Hamilton area which performs abortions.
But Scime (pronounced SHEE-may) says he doesn’t consider ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Oct, 1995 at 14:26 in
Physicians for Life | Author:
Tony Gasgnach Not just another protest organization says president Jim Garrow
At a time when the traditional family structure is under greater attack than ever, a new national organization has arisen to come to its defence.
The national Parents Coalition of Canada was launched at the beginning of July by Jim Garrow of Guelph, Ont., who says he intends to keep the organization from aligning itself with a specific political agenda or religious group.
“It is basically to support the traditions of what family’s all ... (Continue reading)