(LifeSiteNews) – A piece of provincial legislation that would enact a new Alberta “Bill of Rights” includes a section ensuring all provincial healthcare workers along with hospices have the right to refuse to be complicit in offering euthanasia to patients.
LifeSiteNews was recently provided exclusive access to a draft version of the “Alberta Bill of Rights” from a source well connected with the ruling United Conservative Party (UCP).
The provisions protecting healthcare workers from being forced to participate in state-sanctioned medical assistance in dying, or MAiD as it is known, is written under a section called “Freedom of informed consent and to make personal health decisions, including to refuse vaccinations, medical or surgical procedures.”
“Individuals’ healthcare personal choices and safety are further secured by the separation of health care and death care,” the draft text states.
“Whereas: individual healthcare workers and private hospice facilities have the rights to freedom of conscience when deciding whether to recommend or participate in prescribing or providing medical assistance in dying.”
It is expected that the UCP government in Alberta will introduce its new “Bill of Rights” this fall. The draft of the bill contains a slew of pro-freedom proposals, including, as reported by LifeSiteNews, enshrining the “right to life” into law, including from “conception, gestation in the womb.” It also includes, as reported by LifeSiteNews, a section that guarantees each citizen has the “right” to medical “informed consent” as well as the “right” to “refuse vaccinations.”
The UCP source told LifeSiteNews that the draft version of the bill is subject to change. However, the hope from those who worked on it is that the definitive version will not include many changes.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the leader of the UCP, had earlier promised that the province’s Bill of Rights would be amended this fall to add protections for people’s personal medical decisions that most likely will include the right to refuse a vaccine. Her exact position on MAiD is not clear, but she appears to support healthcare workers’ right to freedom of conscience.
The draft version of the Alberta Bill of Rights was created by a “small group writing it in secret and consulting with lawyers” as well as elected MLAs and cabinet members of the UCP government, according to the source within the UCP.
When it comes to MAiD, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government sought to expand it from the chronically and terminally ill to those suffering solely from mental illness.
However, in February, after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups as well as most of Canada’s provinces, the federal government delayed the mental illness expansion until 2027.
The number of Canadians killed by lethal injection since 2016 stands at close to 65,000, with an estimated 16,000 deaths in 2023 alone. Many fear that because the official statistics are manipulated the number may be even higher.