by admin | Mar 12, 2021 | In the News
Canada’s legal system has an ugly track record on mental illness: exclusionary immigration laws; involuntary sterilization; restrictive marriage and voting statutes; debacles of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization and criminalization; and casualties of the...
by admin | Mar 12, 2021 | In the News
The federal government was granted one more month Thursday to expand access to medical assistance in dying even as its efforts to do so stalled in the House of Commons. Read the article by Joan Bryden in the Ottawa Citizen Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Sheehan...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | In the News
Twelve months ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed our lives and pushed almost every other issue to the margins of public attention, we sounded a warning that Canada seemed to be sliding toward what amounts to a system of death on demand. Read the...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | In the News
Read this in full at the UN Human Rights – Office of the High Commisioner’s Page GENEVA (25 January 2021) – UN human rights experts today expressed alarm at a growing trend to enact legislation enabling access to medically assisted dying based largely on...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | In the News
Read the article by Margaret Eaton at National News Watch Anyone living with mental illness knows it can absolutely be grievous and even unbearable. However, what sets mental illness apart from all other types of suffering is that there always remains the hope of...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | In the News
Bill C-7, passed by the House of Commons and now in front of a Senate committee, raises even more ethical challenges than the original legislation. Doctors who object should not be compelled to support it. Read the article by Dr. Thomas Bouchard, Dr. Ramona Coelho,...
by admin | Jan 20, 2021 | In the News
People with disabilities and their caregivers are at risk for being made to say yes to medical assistance in dying when they don’t want to. Read the article by Carmela Hutchison at rabble.ca On July 24, 2017, CBC reported a story about a 25-year-old...
by admin | Jan 20, 2021 | In the News
For years bioethicists of a utilitarian cast have argued that conscientious objection has no place in medicine. Now Canadian courts are beginning to put their stamp of approval on the extinction of doctors’ right to refuse to kill their patients. Read the entire...
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