A Case of Too Much Protection

According to this web post in TroyMedia, it's sexual abuse for an optician in Ontario, Canada, to treat his/her spouse. Read on: "If Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Tim Hudak wants to take a page out of Stephen Harper’s book and win support by appealing to one interest group at a time, here’s a suggestion for him. Regulated health professionals in Ontario – approximately 256,000 of them – would be tickled pink if he pledged to amend one of the most unnecessary and irritating laws on the books. The Regulated Health Professions Act prevents health professionals from providing services to their husbands, wives or common-law partners, under the bizarre theory that this protects patients from 'sexual abuse.'" Read more.