Tag Archives: conscientious objection
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The headline figures don’t tell the whole story in the BMA assisted suicide poll

October 9, 2020 Written by End of Life

While there have been what seems like an unending succession of polls of British doctors about euthanasia and assisted suicide, that run by the British Medical Association (BMA) early in 2020 can lay claim to being one of the most thorough and significant. With over […]

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Denying conscience – the Canadian experiment

March 31, 2020 Written by End of Life

Recent reports from Canada reveal a worrying trend of doctors being pressurised and bullied into participating in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, the Canadian euthanasia programme). This is not only a worrying development in itself but one that follows almost inevitably from the steady erosion […]

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Defending freedom of conscience on emergency contraception

August 14, 2019 Written by Medical Practice

The UK’s biggest abortion provider, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), has attacked pharmacists who do not sell the ‘morning after pill’ for conscience reasons. After one incident where a pharmacist would not dispense emergency contraception to a woman for ‘personal’ reasons, BPAS condemned both the […]

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A stark warning to UK doctors from Canada

March 11, 2019 Written by End of Life , Medical Practice , Start of Life

A recent legal ruling in Canada is a strong warning for British medical professionals who conscientiously object to involvement in abortion, or who would do so with assisted suicide if it were ever legalised. In 2018 the Ontario Superior Court ruled that healthcare professionals who […]

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Christian doctors unite worldwide to challenge WMA on conscience rights

September 14, 2018 Written by End of Life , Medical Practice , Start of Life

The International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) has called on the World Medical Association (WMA) to protect doctors’ conscience rights on abortion and euthanasia.   ICMDA, which unites national associations of doctors and dentists in over 80 countries, was responding to a move by […]