Category Canadian Bioethics

Physician-assisted death needs expert reporting and monitoring

April 12, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Juliet Guichon and Pauline Alakija argue that governments should require that physician-assisted deaths be reportable to (and by) coroners and medical examiners, so that scrupulous monitoring of physician-assisted death may occur.

Abortions: Coming soon to PEI

April 7, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Law & Policy, Public Health, Sexual Health

Nasha Nijhawan and Kelly McMillan explain why the PEI government has finally elected to provide abortion services on the Island.

Clarifying the Assisted Death Recommendations

March 11, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Maureen Taylor, Jocelyn Downie, and Jennifer Gibson suggest that recent commentaries on official Reports on assisted death in Canada misstate the recommendations made in the Reports and their relationship to the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Carter.

The Need to Discuss Death-Hastening Methods

March 9, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Stuart Chambers discusses an oversight in the Report by the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.

Not Dead Yet: An Unprincipled Position against Assisted Death

March 7, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Disability, Law & Policy

Stuart Chambers calls on Not Dead Yet to re-evaluate the beliefs that have shaped their anti-euthanasia and anti-assisted suicide mindset.

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