Annual Meeting 2011
Resolutions
CNA Resolutions - June 2004
| RESOLUTION 1 | CODE OF ETHICS |
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BE IT RESOLVED,
That the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) revoke the Situations/Utilitarian Ethics pervading the code and replace it with Traditional Nursing Ethics; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
That CNA lobby the Canadian government to cease funding the Planned Parenthood Federation sex education and reproductive health programs, which are generating individual, family and societal degeneration at an alarming rate.Background
The CNA Code of Ethics implies that the termination of a medically unnecessary pregnancy is deemed a client’s value and presents Situation/Utilitarian Ethics to justify it.
Nurses observing and practicing according to Traditional Nurse Ethics face ostracism, job loss, estrangement, censure. Their professional ethics are demeaned as personal values which must not impose on clients’ values (healthy or unhealthy).
The code precludes nurses from practicing ethically according to current nursing science and research.
The Canadian government funds (through the provinces) the Planned Parenthood Federation’s (PPF) sex education and reproductive health programs which have proven detrimental to the health of individuals, families and society in general. PPF’s failure has been observed over time, experience and research, all of which point to: the myth of safe sex, the myth of safe abortion, the myth of overpopulation, the myth of sex education in reducing teenage pregnancy, the myth of reproductive health via contraception, sterilization, and abortion, the myth of quality of life via PPF standards.
Nursing values in the code are questionable because there is:
No Dignity for the more than 1000,000 children yearly brutalized, dehumanized, research, commoditized (a brain retails for $999.00), garbaged, etc.
No Justice for the children violently discriminated against for personal, social, political and economic convenience.
No Quality Care advocated by nurses for these children and their mothers. No evidence of health teaching or informed consent.
No Health and Well-being promoted by nurses as evidenced in continuum. Note for example, the cancer rates with cancer of the breast high on the list.
No Choice of ethical nurses but demeanment. Plenty of choice for nurses who assist in aborting healthy women whose choice (for abortion) is grossly uninformed and lacking in fundamental truth.
Global statistics indicate that the number of children killed by abortion (during 1965-1986) is greater than the number of people living in the world today. Aiding and abetting is the International Council of Nurses (ICN) code which holds as values the decimation of the world population with its future and wealth.
As AIDS sweeps across Africa, Uganda remains a lone success story, as millions of Ugandans have embraced traditional sexual morality, including sexual abstinence outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage, in order to avoid infection.1
The government funded traditional sexual morality programs have achieved remarkable success as reflected (for example) in Kampala where the HIV rate decreased to 8 per cent from 30 per cent a decade ago in two antenatal clinics.2 As a bonus, the concomitant bio-psychosocial complications of the former PPF programs are also in decline.
If adopted, the Ugandan model could prove very beneficial to Canada (health and cost-wise) in reducing the relentless cluster of side effects pertinent to the current failing PPF programs.
The remedy for the assault on the Conscience of Nursing is the return of the profession to its Traditional Ethics based on the Natural Moral Law. Thus, Nursing Ethics will be the determinant of nursing action in the biopsychosocial care of the patient, not the morally flawed Situation/Utilitarian Ethics.
Submitted by Helen T. Nightingale, RN,
Member, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
1
Research Institute Review, Front Royal, Virginia 22630, USA, January-February 2004, p. 19.
2
Ibid, p. 8
