Opinion: It's time for B.C. government to stand with patients like Sam O'Neill
Health Ministry could immediately eliminate exception in MAiD policy, forcing publicly funded faith based groups to allow provision of MAiD.
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Health Ministry could immediately eliminate exception in MAiD policy, forcing publicly funded faith based groups to allow provision of MAiD.
Across the country, people are denied MAID and other medical interventions opposed by the Catholic Church, including the morning-after pill, abortion, gender-affirming surgery and more
Sam O’Neill, 34, was forced to transfer from St. Paul's Hospital to access medical assistance in dying.
Allowing medically assisted dying at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver isn't good enough, says a palliative care doctor who wants to see an end to all religious exemptions that force patients in B.C. to transfer in order to access MAiD.
Days after B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix told CTV News he had no plans to change an agreement that allows a Catholic-run health authority to opt out of providing medical assistance in dying (MAiD) at its facilities for religious reasons, he has changed his tune.