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The US President's Council on Bioethics meets in a few weeks to discuss the right of doctors to refuse to provide treatment based on their personal beliefs, including religious.
The meeting, Nov. 20 and 21 in Arlington, Va., will also discuss medical futility, and the future of public bioethics and national bioethics commissions in the United States.
The question of a doctor's right to refuse treatment has been a hot topic lately, after a California court ruled a doctor could not refuse to artificially inseminate a lesbian.
In Ontario, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons was heavily criticized by Ontario Medical Association and the Catholic church after it released a policy paper on the issue warning doctors about the risks in refusing service.
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