It is not too late to speak up in support of Alberta legislation\nto protect the conscience rights of physicians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For details on Bill 207: Conscience Rights (Health Care Providers) Protection Act (Williams), and why this issue is so significant, see my recent editorial in The Lawyer\u2019s Daily<\/a>. For background on the troubling Ontario court decisions that inspired this bill, see my pieces published in Convivium<\/a> and the National Post<\/a>. Attached, you may also read a letter sent to all Alberta MLAs regarding the Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although a committee voted against Bill 207 continuing to Second Reading, the motion is not binding; it is only a recommendation. The Bill was reported to the Assembly<\/a> Tuesday afternoon, and according to the Hansard for the report<\/a>, it will proceed to a debate<\/strong> on a motion for concurrence with the Committee recommendation. The Order Papers<\/a> indicate that MLAs will have an opportunity to speak to Bill 207 on Monday, December 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Please consider sending an email or making a phone call to your MLA (contact info here<\/a>) to express your support for the bill. There’s still time to urge our elected officials to stand up<\/strong> in defense of our fundamental freedoms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is not too late to speak up in support of Alberta legislation to protect the conscience rights of physicians. For details on Bill 207: Conscience Rights (Health Care Providers) Protection Act (Williams), and why this issue is so significant, see my recent editorial in The Lawyer\u2019s Daily. For background… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-28649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28649"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}