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Assisted Dying bill
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You could say that about every single decision an MP makes on behalf of their constituents. Democracy at work, innit. There a one or two folk that don't like Starmer or Boris or Rishi. Letting 'the people' decide is great, until you have something like Brexit.
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Some who are against it are concerned about mission creep. Canada is used as an example.
Canada’s justice minister announced plans to legalise medically assisted dying nearly a decade ago, she acknowledged the proposed law might prove divisive. “For some, medical assistance in dying will be troubling,” Jody Wilson-Raybould told reporters in 2016. “For others, this legislation will not go far enough.”
Medical assistance in dying (Maid) laws, crafted in response to a supreme court decision, initially permitted only terminally ill Canadians to be eligible for the procedure. But in 2019, a Quebec judge ruled that restricting access to those who had a “reasonably foreseeable death” was unconstitutional, forcing federal lawmakers to amend and expand the existing laws.
In the years since, Canada’s experiment in physician-assisted death has made international headlines – including a feature article in the Atlantic magazine last year that investigated how the country’s assisted dying laws “went wrong”. In 2021, three UN human rights experts cautioned that an expansion to the law, which permitted people with chronic conditions to apply for assisted death, would create a “two-tiered system” and push people with disabilities towards suicide.
Of the 13,102 people who died using assisted death, 96.5% had terminal illnesses or faced imminent death. Only 463 people suffering from a chronic condition accessed Maid.
Quebec – the province with the highest rate of Maid – is studying why people are accessing assisted dying in greater numbers each year. Officials in the province have also requested an amendment to the criminal code that would permit people to consent to medically assisted death before the onset of conditions like Alzheimer’s.
The next battleground in the expansion of Maid is the inclusion of people with chronic mental illness. When it was forced to rework its laws, the federal government faced pressure from senators to include mental illness as a reason for accessing assisted death.
In December 2022, the federal government said it would temporarily pause the expansion after facing sharp criticism from healthcare providers, who feared the system was not equipped to handle cases of mental illness. Earlier this month, however, the federal government announced its second pause on expanding the scope of Maid for those with mental illness, pushing it back to 2027.
The friction over medically assisted death comes against the backdrop of a healthcare system pushed to the brink and straining to offer adequate care to many Canadians.
www.theguardian.com
Canada’s justice minister announced plans to legalise medically assisted dying nearly a decade ago, she acknowledged the proposed law might prove divisive. “For some, medical assistance in dying will be troubling,” Jody Wilson-Raybould told reporters in 2016. “For others, this legislation will not go far enough.”
Medical assistance in dying (Maid) laws, crafted in response to a supreme court decision, initially permitted only terminally ill Canadians to be eligible for the procedure. But in 2019, a Quebec judge ruled that restricting access to those who had a “reasonably foreseeable death” was unconstitutional, forcing federal lawmakers to amend and expand the existing laws.
In the years since, Canada’s experiment in physician-assisted death has made international headlines – including a feature article in the Atlantic magazine last year that investigated how the country’s assisted dying laws “went wrong”. In 2021, three UN human rights experts cautioned that an expansion to the law, which permitted people with chronic conditions to apply for assisted death, would create a “two-tiered system” and push people with disabilities towards suicide.
Of the 13,102 people who died using assisted death, 96.5% had terminal illnesses or faced imminent death. Only 463 people suffering from a chronic condition accessed Maid.
Quebec – the province with the highest rate of Maid – is studying why people are accessing assisted dying in greater numbers each year. Officials in the province have also requested an amendment to the criminal code that would permit people to consent to medically assisted death before the onset of conditions like Alzheimer’s.
The next battleground in the expansion of Maid is the inclusion of people with chronic mental illness. When it was forced to rework its laws, the federal government faced pressure from senators to include mental illness as a reason for accessing assisted death.
In December 2022, the federal government said it would temporarily pause the expansion after facing sharp criticism from healthcare providers, who feared the system was not equipped to handle cases of mental illness. Earlier this month, however, the federal government announced its second pause on expanding the scope of Maid for those with mental illness, pushing it back to 2027.
The friction over medically assisted death comes against the backdrop of a healthcare system pushed to the brink and straining to offer adequate care to many Canadians.
Canada’s assisted dying laws in spotlight as expansion paused again
Canada has one of the highest rates of euthanasia in the world, with 4.1% of deaths aided by doctors, but moves to make it more accessible are being questioned
www.theguardian.com
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