{"id":13038,"date":"2008-11-04T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13038"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:48:55","slug":"news-morals-medicine-and-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13038","title":{"rendered":"(News) Morals, medicine and geography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roger Collier<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cmaj.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ\" class=\"wp-image-11269\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(Article compares approach to freedom of conscience in health care in the US and Canada) <br><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>Advocates of compulsory referral claim that doctors who discriminate against certain practices are, whether they know it or not, also discriminating against certain people \u2014 namely, the poor, the uneducated and those in remote areas. These people already have limited access to medical services, a problem that, all sides agree, is exacerbated when their doctors refuse to present them with all their options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Collier R. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/cmaj\/179\/10\/996.full.pdf\">Morals, medicine and geography<\/a>. Can Med Assoc J. 2008 Nov 04;179(10):996-997. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Collier (Article compares approach to freedom of conscience in health care in the US and Canada) ExtractAdvocates of compulsory referral claim that doctors who discriminate against certain practices are, whether they know it or not, also discriminating against certain people \u2014 namely, the poor, the uneducated and those in remote areas. These people already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(News) Morals, medicine and geography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,924,1646],"tags":[1754],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journal-news","category-referral","tag-roger-collier"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>(News) Morals, medicine and geography - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Advocates of compulsory referral claim that objecting doctors are, whether or not they know 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