In this second episode of Leslie’s Diatribes, I sound off on the Health Ethics Guide, a publication of the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada. Employees in Catholic health care facilities in eight provinces are told to sign this code of ethics every year, and many do so without reading it. Leslie highlights some salient aspects of its contents, and encourages those who object to what it demands to refrain from agreeing to it.
The opinions expressed in this episode are mine, and do not represent the Centre for Inquiry Canada or any other organization.
Careful about ticking boxes where Catholics are concerned! By their internal logic, once you agree to something, even as a minor, under coercion, it can never be undone... Example: When you check the Catholic separate school box on your property tax assessment in Ontario, the school boards will use this against you if you try to opt out your kids from Catholic indoctrination in publicly-funded secondary schools, on the (untrue) grounds that this option is only available to non-Catholics...
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much legal weight this has. I presume that it has been written up by lawyers for the church, and that breaking the terms would lead to dismissal at the very least. Any hospital that receives public funding of any kind (OHIP) should be legally required to provide all legally recognised services without religious limitations.
ReplyDeleteDave Bailey