Manitoba backs faith-based hospitals on issue of doctor-assisted death
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says it will not force faith-based hospitals to provide medical assistance in dying.
The comment comes in response to a controversy over the reversal of a decision by the St. Boniface Hospital’s board of directors on the issue.
As a faith-based institution, St. Boniface doesn’t as a rule provide medical assistance in dying, but the board voted in late May to amend that policy to allow it to happen on site under “rare circumstances.”
The Catholic Health Corporation of Manitoba then ordered a review of the decision after adding 10 new directors to the board, and the amendment was overturned.