Canadian Nurses for Life is an organization of nurses dedicated to the defense of human life from conception to natural death. We believe that the destruction of human life is in direct contradiction to the moral and ethical responsibilities of our profession. We believe that the active or passive acceptance of the anti-life mentality stands in grave opposition to the moral, ethical and practical aspects of nursing.

Canadian nurses have been disciplined, and fired, for even discussing options to abortion with patients. Nurses who refuse to perform "any health service" are usually not hired, and as hospitals consolidate their abortion services on obstetrical or medical floors, nurses who refuse to assist with abortions are being left with no other alternative but to resign or be fired.

What will happen to nurses as the cost of caring for the elderly, the disabled, and the very ill increases, and an euthanasia ethic comes to the fore? It appears that within a very short period of time, Canadian hospitals will only employ those health care workers who will participate in the killing of their patients.

Since 1986, Canadian Nurses for Life has been seeking protection through the House of Commons and the Senate for health care workers who cannot in conscience participate in killing their patients. When it comes to choice, nurses have none.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT NOW AS WE AGAIN ATTEMPT TO HAVE A LAW ENACTED THAT WILL PROTECT FROM DISCRIMINATION HEALTH-CARE WORKERS WHO CANNOT IN CONSCIENCE PARTICIPATE IN PROCEDURES TO WHICH THEY HAVE A MORAL, ETHICAL OR RELIGIOUS OBJECTION. PLEASE JOIN US.