Medical Conscience Under Assault in U.S. and Abroad

Medical conscience is under sustained assault as doctors are being threatened with societal punishment or professional discipline for refusing to provide controversial but legal interventions such as abortion, euthanasia, and gender transition against their religious or moral beliefs. Now, a British Columbia doctor has been fined $28,100 for refusing to administer puberty blockers to a child based on his religious and moral objections. From the CBC story:

So a doctor was financially punished for refusing to administer a drug “off-label,” i.e., for a purpose that has not been approved by Canadian health authorities. He was punished for refusing to administer substances that have the potential to cause material harm to the patient; substances now banned for use in gender transitions in some European countries.

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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith is an author and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism.

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Medical conscience is under sustained assault as doctors are being threatened with societal punishment or professional discipline for refusing to provide controversial but legal interventions such as abortion, euthanasia, and gender transition against their religious or moral beliefs. Now, a British Columbia doctor has been fined $28,100 for refusing to administer puberty blockers to a child based on his religious and moral objections. From the CBC story:

So a doctor was financially punished for refusing to administer a drug “off-label,” i.e., for a purpose that has not been approved by Canadian health authorities. He was punished for refusing to administer substances that have the potential to cause material harm to the patient; substances now banned for use in gender transitions in some European countries.