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Leanne Paetkau

I completely disagree with this draft proposal to eliminate the phrase "effective referral" from the conscientious objection standard. Physicians and Health Care workers need to be free to care for their patients and clients according to their own morals and beliefs. If they are not free to do so, they will move elsewhere. We are already short doctors in an already broken Health Care system.

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