Tag Archives: Trudo Lemmens

Turning Human Rights Upside Down with Advance Requests for MAID

June 8, 2022 · by · 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.

Dangers of a Lax Assisted Death Regime

March 3, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, Mental Health

Trudo Lemmens lists a number of concerns with the recent Report of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.

Testing Canada’s New Pharmaceutical Transparency Law

November 9, 2015 · by · in Law & Policy, Pharmaceuticals · Leave a comment

Matthew Herder and Trudo Lemmens explore the ways that Canada’s transparency legislation may limit researchers’ abilities to scrutinize drug safety and effectiveness.