Suppression of conscience is bad medicine

Taking away doctors’ conscience rights in Ontario doesn’t help women

July 31, 2014 | by Andrea Mrozek , Executive Director, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. The Red Tent Sisters can be found online here: http://www.redtentsisters.com
  2. An overview of fertility awareness and natural family planning can be found here: http://sexualityandu.ca/birth-control/birth_control_methods_contraception/natural_methods
  3. For an example of one such study, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24808123
  4. World Health Organization list of known carcinogens can be accessed directly here: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/ClassificationsGroupOrder.pdf
    For more background: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol72/mono72-6.pdf
  5. At this link, table one, the four studies that are statistically significant, ie, have a confidence interval greater than one, all show an association between breast cancer and the Pill.: http://www.humupd.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/6/631/T1.expansion.html
  6. http://www.classaction.ca/actions/Pharmaceutical/Current-Actions/Yasmin-Yaz.aspx?caredrected=1
  7. CBC. (2013, June 11). Yaz, Yasmin birth control pills suspected in 23 deaths. Retrieved from: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/yaz-yasmin-birth-control-pills-suspected-in-23-deaths-1.1302473
  8. Scientific American. (2009, July 28). Can Birth Control Hormones Be Filtered from the Water Supply? Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birth-control-in-water-supply/
  9. This website speaks to some of the services offered, and success rates: https://www.fertilitycare.ca
  10. To contribute to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario consultation process, click here: http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=3403\\