"NO MORE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS"

Crusade against NFP-only physicians

"Religious beliefs should remain where they belong - in the private domain."

Sean Murphy*

Table of Contents

Abstract

Part 1: The making of a story

• What happened
• A happy ending?
• The gathering storm
• The crusade
• The 'other'
• The new story
• Notes

Part 2: Medical judgement and professional ethical concerns

• "I thought that was very weird."
• The contraceptive culture
• Challenging the culture
• Introducing a different perspective
• In the beginning
• Medical judgement
  • The patient and establishment practice
  • The patient and alternative medical judgement
  • Science, establishment practice and alternative medical judgement
  • Avoiding harm, establishment practice and alternative medical judgement
  • Effectiveness, establishment practice and alternative medical judgement
• Professional ethical concerns
• Discrimination
• Case study
  • The accused
  • The accusers
  • The College
  • Diversity, respect and tolerance
• Notes

Part 3: "Religious values"

• The flashpoint
• What everybody knows (or ought to)
• Dogmatic secularism
• Everyone is a believer
• "Seeing through the secular illusion"
• The danger of secular authoritarianism
• The practice of medicine as a moral enterprise
• The practice of morality as a human enterprise
• A duty to do what is wrong
• A troubling inversion
• Notes

Part 4: A difficult compromise

• Review
• Early promises of tolerance
• Broken promises
• Preserving physician integrity
• Patient-centred medical practice and health care
• Caveats
• Physician preparation
• Communication
• Clinical settings
• Notice
• Consultations and informed consent
• An objectionable approach
• Sustaining the compromise
• Notes

Part 5: Crossing the threshold

•  A dangerous idea
• Current threats to freedom of conscience in health care
• Referral and moral complicity
• Mandatory referral
  • Mandatory referral for abortion
  • Mandatory referral for assisted suicide/euthanasia
  • Quebec Bill 52: Mandatory referral for euthanasia
• Two perspectives on killing patients
• Normalizing mandatory participation in killing
• What about contraception?
• Notes

Part 6: Avoiding authoritarian ‘solutions’

• The centrality of the human person
• Explicit faith, hidden faith
• Impossible demands
• Avoiding authoritarian 'solutions'
• Freedom of conscience in health care: distinctions and limits
• Perfective Freedom of Conscience
• Preservative Freedom of Conscience
• The problem of limits
• Protecting fundamental goods
• Notes

APPENDIX "A"

• Identification of the Loblaws Store where the prescription was obtained
• Map showing relative location of clinics
• Sunrise Medical Centre Appendix

APPENDIX "B"

• K___ A___ Facebook Page Timeline

APPENDIX "C"

• Radical Handmaids Facebook Page Timeline

APPENDIX "D" - STATISTICS

• D1.  Trends: Out-of-Wedlock Births
  • D1.1 Out of Wedlock Births (English speaking countries)
  • D1.1 Out of Wedlock Births (Nordic Countries)
  • Sources
    • D1.2 Abortion
      • D1.2 Abortion (English speaking countries)
      • D1.2 Abortion (Nordic countries)
      • Sources 
• D2. Effectiveness of Birth Control Methods
  • D2.1. Effectiveness
  • D2.1.1 Chart
  • D2.1.1 Table
  • Sources
    • D2.2  Method of Measurement(Pearl Index)
    • D2.3  Definitions
      • Perfect Use/Method Effectiveness
      • Actual/Typical Use/Use Effectiveness
• D3. Hospital wait times in Ottawa region (2013/2014)

APPENDIX "E" - HUMAN FERTILITY CYCLES

• E1.  Male fertility
  • Sperm production
  • Sperm lifespan
  • Male fertility during reproductive lifespan
• E2.  Female fertility
  • Ovulation
  • Egg lifespan
  • Female fertilty during reproductive lifespan
• E3.  Combined fertility
  • Effect of cervical mucus
• E4.  Comparing Male, Female and Combined Fertility Patterns
• Notes

APPENDIX "F" - THE DIFFICULT COMPROMISE

• CMA and abortion law reform
• 1970 revision of the Code of Ethics
• Increasing abortion rates and increasing controversy
• 1977 revision of the Code of Ethics
• 1978: revision rejected, wording restored
• "No ethical consensus" to support mandatory referral
• Policy reaffirmed
• Notes

APPENDIX "G" - NOTICES TO PATIENTS

• G1. Reading skills and language
• G2. Accepting new patients
• G3. Re-directing patients