Ontario sets up ‘death hotline’ to force doctors to comply with having patients killed

Apr 7, 2017 by Jill

by Lianne Laurence, LifeSite:

Ontario doctors will be forced to be complicit in killing their patients by euthanasia or assisted suicide unless the Liberal government amends Bill 84 to include conscience rights protection, warn physicians’ rights advocates.

Health Minister Eric Hoskins said last week that the Liberals will set up a toll-free number by May to connect patients requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide with healthcare workers willing to kill them.

The “care-coordination service” will “allow patients to contact central staff who will connect them with healthcare providers prepared to handle requests for a medically assisted death,” according to an April 2 Canadian Press report.

The report suggests that individuals seeking euthanasia can bypass doctors who object to killing their patients by using the “death hotline,” says Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

But such a “death hotline” won’t protect doctors’ conscience rights, he told LifeSiteNews.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s current policy forces doctors who object to killing their patients to give them an “effective referral,” that is, to an accessible colleague who will kill them.

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