Category Law & Policy

Medical Aid in Dying: What Are We So Afraid Of?

Dave Langlois worries about the consequences of normalizing medical aid in dying, but nonetheless argues that grievously ill patients should be able to ask for, and receive, help in hastening their death.

IVF and Adoption: Not Two Sides of the Same Coin

Sarah Chapple suggests that Ontario’s proposed financial support for IVF but not adoption is one more example of financial discrimination toward adoptive families.

Improve Access to Abortion

Joanna Erdman at the “National Day of Action: Improve Access to Abortion” – a rally organized by Halifax LEAF: Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund  Thursday May 29, 2014 on the first anniversary of Dr. Morgentaler’s death – calls for public funding of the Morgentaler clinic in Fredericton, N.B., and the repeal of Section 84-20 […]

#AbortionPEI

On May 28, 2014, the National Abortion Federation held a press conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in an effort to bring abortion services to the island (here and here). The following letter was delivered to the government.

A Nudge Too Far

Dave Snow challenges “presumed consent” for deceased organ donation.