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Created page with "Canadian medical ethicist Dr. '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', ({{LifeData|birth=1942-04-13|birthplace=Adelaide|birthcountry=Australia}}), Founding Director of the McGill's Faculty of..."
Canadian medical ethicist Dr. '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', ({{LifeData|birth=1942-04-13|birthplace=Adelaide|birthcountry=Australia}}), Founding Director of the McGill's Faculty of Law Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2010-2011/faculties/law/information/law_centre_for_medicine_ethics_and_law McGill
|title=Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law
|accessdate=2020-05-10
}}</ref>, has likened infant male circumcision to criminal assault.
She wrote to Pierre Blais in 1993, then Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, to propose that "male circumcision would not be totally banned. Rather circumcision of those persons unable to consent for themselves (which would, of course, include all infants) would not be allowed under the Criminal Code as it presently stands." However, no action was taken.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/Canada/Somerville-Blais/
|title=Letter to Pierre Blais, Minister of Justice
|last=Somerville
|first=Margaret
|author-link=Margaret A. Somerville
|date=1993-01-28
|accessdate=2019-11-04
}}</ref>
At the [[Fifth International Symposium]] in 1998, she gave a lecture on the subject "Respect in the Context of Infant Male Circumcisiion: Can Ethics and Law Provide Insights?".
After 40 years of service at McGill, Margaret Somerville returned to Australia in 2016, where she joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia, in Sydney, to help establish a major bioethics component in their new MD program.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/news/retirement-our-colleagues-paul-dempsey-and-margaret-somerville-260572
|title=Retirement of our colleagues Paul Dempsey and Margaret Somerville
|publisher=McGill
|accessdate=2020-05-10
}}</ref>
{{PUB}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Somerville
|first=Margaret
|author-link=Margaret A. Somerville
|title=Medical Interventions and the Criminal Law
|journal=McGill Law Journal
|date=1980
|volume=26
|issue=82
|pages=82-96
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/somerville/
|accessdate=2020-05-08
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Somerville
|first=Margaret
|author-link=Margaret A. Somerville
|title=Therapeutic and non-therapeutic medical procedures--what are the distinctions?
|journal=Health law in Canada
|date=1980-12-31
|volume=2
|issue=4
|pages=85-90
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/somerville1981/
|pubmedID=10309681
|accessdate=2020-05-08
}}
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Margaret_Somerville|Margaret Somerville|2020-10-05}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Somerville, Margaret A.}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Female]]
[[Category:Canada]]
|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2010-2011/faculties/law/information/law_centre_for_medicine_ethics_and_law McGill
|title=Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law
|accessdate=2020-05-10
}}</ref>, has likened infant male circumcision to criminal assault.
She wrote to Pierre Blais in 1993, then Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, to propose that "male circumcision would not be totally banned. Rather circumcision of those persons unable to consent for themselves (which would, of course, include all infants) would not be allowed under the Criminal Code as it presently stands." However, no action was taken.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/Canada/Somerville-Blais/
|title=Letter to Pierre Blais, Minister of Justice
|last=Somerville
|first=Margaret
|author-link=Margaret A. Somerville
|date=1993-01-28
|accessdate=2019-11-04
}}</ref>
At the [[Fifth International Symposium]] in 1998, she gave a lecture on the subject "Respect in the Context of Infant Male Circumcisiion: Can Ethics and Law Provide Insights?".
After 40 years of service at McGill, Margaret Somerville returned to Australia in 2016, where she joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia, in Sydney, to help establish a major bioethics component in their new MD program.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/news/retirement-our-colleagues-paul-dempsey-and-margaret-somerville-260572
|title=Retirement of our colleagues Paul Dempsey and Margaret Somerville
|publisher=McGill
|accessdate=2020-05-10
}}</ref>
{{PUB}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Somerville
|first=Margaret
|author-link=Margaret A. Somerville
|title=Medical Interventions and the Criminal Law
|journal=McGill Law Journal
|date=1980
|volume=26
|issue=82
|pages=82-96
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/somerville/
|accessdate=2020-05-08
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Somerville
|first=Margaret
|author-link=Margaret A. Somerville
|title=Therapeutic and non-therapeutic medical procedures--what are the distinctions?
|journal=Health law in Canada
|date=1980-12-31
|volume=2
|issue=4
|pages=85-90
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/somerville1981/
|pubmedID=10309681
|accessdate=2020-05-08
}}
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Margaret_Somerville|Margaret Somerville|2020-10-05}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Somerville, Margaret A.}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Female]]
[[Category:Canada]]