Canadian Catholic physicians discuss threats to conscience rights
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OTTAWA (CNS) — Physicians cannot be forced to violate their consciences but can be punished for respecting them, a professor from Toronto’s McGill University told a group of Canadian Catholic doctors. Douglas Farrow, associate professor of religious studies at McGill, acknowledged that conscience rights are under threat in North America, but urged the physicians gathered in Ottawa to “avoid the language of coercion” when speaking of the threats.
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