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Thread #158223   Message #3753284
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Nov-15 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
That's a different issue. Abortion has been legal in this country since well before any current doctors and nurses were trained. A new law about assisted dying would not have been anticipated by any of our current doctors and nurses and should therefore be a matter of conscience. It could be a different matter for those trained after the new law came in. We'd probably want to avoid a two-tier profession in that regard, however. It could also be a matter of which particular aspects of the dying process we would expect people to be involved in.