Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
SF 2487 is an Oregon style assisted suicide bill that, among other concerns, expands the definition of who can prescribe lethal assisted suicide drugs and it requires health care providers that oppose killing to refer.
SF 2487 Section 1, Subdivision 3 (c) states:
Failure to inform a terminally ill adult who requests additional information about available end-of-life treatments including medical aid-in-dying, or failing to refer the terminally ill adult to another health care provider who can provide the information, shall be considered a failure to obtain informed consent for subsequent medical treatment.
"Health care provider" or "provider" means a person who is licensed, certified, registered or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to administer health care or prescribe and dispense medication under the provider's scope of practice including:Similar to other 2019 assisted suicide bills SF 2487 is part of the assisted suicide lobby's plan to expand the scope of assisted suicide legislation. New Mexico's assisted suicide bill was the most extreme bill I had ever seen, Deleware's bill redefines assisted suicide as palliative care while Oregon's assisted suicide bills expand the definition of terminal and eliminate the waiting period.
(1) a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed under chapter 147 or prior to May 1, 1963, sections 148.11 to 148.16;
(2) an advanced practice registered nurse licensed under chapter 148 and certified by a national nurse certification organization acceptable to the Board of Nursing to practice as a clinical nurse specialist or nurse practitioner; and
(3) a pharmacist licensed under chapter 151.
This sounds very similar to the "effective referral" requirement imposed, in violation of Charter rights, in Ontario by the CPSO.
ReplyDeleteYou have to wonder why, in the age of easy internet access to physicians' contact information, legislators have decided that conscientiously objecting health care professionals must provide effective referrals for MAiD even though it would be very easy to connect patients to MAiD-positive physicians directly, without the forced effective referral.
The implications extend beyond the issue of MAiD. Since the effective referral requirement can so easily be shown to be unnecessary, one wonders whether it is perhaps being used by legislators here and in the USA as a back-door way of providing a legal precedent for the arbitrary suspension of rights.