text: In Canada, I understand that the Law requires any doctor who refuses to assist a patient to commit suicide must refer that patient to a doctor or nurse who will. In doing so that doctor who refuses becomes complicit in the murder of that patient (I can't kill you but I can put you in touch with someone who will). The State can now force individuals act against their consciences and commit grevious sin. It has been suggested that a doctor who refuses could be prosecuted for prolonging the suffering of their patient.
  There are other instances both in North America and Europe where Christians can fall foul of the Law for obeying their consciences. Two Catholic midwives were told by the Courts that they had to assist at abortions or lose their jobs. Who in years gone by would ever have believed that a Court would ever give such a ruling?