{"id":16512,"date":"2018-01-31T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=16512"},"modified":"2022-09-25T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:35:04","slug":"statement-hiv-and-human-rights-organizations-applaud-court-ruling-on-doctors-claiming-right-to-discriminate-on-religious-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/statement-hiv-and-human-rights-organizations-applaud-court-ruling-on-doctors-claiming-right-to-discriminate-on-religious-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: HIV and human rights organizations applaud court ruling on doctors claiming right to discriminate on religious beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"The Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, the HIV &amp; AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO) and the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH), welcome today\u2019s decision by Ontario\u2019s Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) regarding whether doctors can put their personal religious beliefs ahead of patients\u2019 rights to health care.<\/p>\n<p>As we argued before the court, it is unreasonable for physicians to claim a right to put their own religious beliefs ahead of providing non-discriminatory and dignified access to health care for their many patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Statement: HIV and human rights organizations applaud court ruling on doctors claiming right to discriminate on religious beliefs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/16509\/?tmstv=1775740948\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, the HIV &amp; AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO) and the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH), welcome today\u2019s decision by Ontario\u2019s Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) regarding whether doctors can put their personal religious beliefs ahead of patients\u2019 rights to health care. As we argued before the court, &#8230; <a title=\"Statement: HIV and human rights organizations applaud court ruling on doctors claiming right to discriminate on religious beliefs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/statement-hiv-and-human-rights-organizations-applaud-court-ruling-on-doctors-claiming-right-to-discriminate-on-religious-beliefs\/\" aria-label=\"More on Statement: HIV and human rights organizations applaud court ruling on doctors claiming right to discriminate on religious beliefs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[146],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-16512","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-discrimination","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16520,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16512\/revisions\/16520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=16512"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=16512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}