Canada: Archbishop calls for health workers to be allowed to refuse to assist suicide - Independent Catholic News

Canada: Archbishop calls for health workers to be allowed to refuse to assist suicide - Independent Catholic News: The Archbishop of Vancouver in western Canada is calling on Premier Christy Clark and other British Columbia politicians to allow health care workers and institutions the right to refuse to assist in suicide. Archbishop J Michael Miller also urges a national palliative care strategy be implemented. Any assisted-suicide law must allow health-care workers and institutions to refuse being unwilling accomplices in legalized killing, the Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver wrote in a letter sent to politicians throughout British Columbia.

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