Should Institutional Conscientious Objection to Assisted Dying be Accommodated?

The contentious, topical debate about whether faith-based health care organizations should be granted accommodation on the basis of institutional conscientious objection to medical assistance is dying (MAiD) addressed through a comparative analysis arguments both sides issue that references such relevant considerations as: claimed ‘moral-authority’, competing rights-based claims, obligations arising from patient welfare principles, formal justice, dissimilarity in consequences, and two illustrative analogy. leads conclusion nonconditional MAiD not ethically acceptable Canada. A compromise mechanism, consisting suggested set pragmatic conditions, proposed could effectively balance moral responsibilities arise this core assumption paper, i.e., some dominant institutions can legitimately request, expect, provincial/territorial governments pay them measure respect their operational, health-care-delivery decision making because these institutions’ long history providing high quality, It further only allow large, publicly funded, enact conditional version circumstances where organization has entered into agreement with department meet proposed, conditions (or relevantly-similar conditions).