Tag Archives: Carter v. Canada

Turning Human Rights Upside Down with Advance Requests for MAID

June 8, 2022 · by impact ethics · in Canada, Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Community, Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, Human Rights, Law & Policy, MAiD, Mental Health, physician-assisted dying, vulnerability

Trudo Lemmens shows how proposals to expand advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID) ignore the Supreme Court’s restraint reflected in the Carter decision and reverse constitutional and human rights norms.

Media promotes baseless slippery slope claims

February 13, 2020 · by impact ethics · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, MAiD, physician-assisted dying

Stuart Chambers critiques the latest crop of slippery slope arguments against the expansion of eligibility for medical assistance in dying.

In a Nutshell II: Ontario Court Decision & MAiD

July 28, 2017 · by impact ethics · in Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Jocelyn Downie describes the recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision in A.B. v. The Attorney General of Canada and the Attorney General for Ontario, which provides an interpretation of “reasonably foreseeable natural death” within the Canadian federal legislation on medical assistance in dying (MAiD).

Mental Illness and Access to Assisted Dying

February 15, 2017 · by impact ethics · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, Mental Health

Ryan Tanner responds to objections to allowing medical assistance in dying for persons suffering from mental illness as the sole underlying medical condition.