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Assisted dying : disability advocates launch legal challenge to Canada's law
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A group of organisations advocating for Canadians with disabilities has launched a court challenge against a key provision of Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying (MAID) that currently allows people to apply for the service even if their medical condition is not leading to a “reasonably foreseeable” natural death.
The groups allege that the “track two” provision added to the law in 2021, which describes eligibility criteria for people who are suffering but not faced with imminent death, is discriminatory to people with disabilities and has resulted in premature deaths.
“We are witnessing an alarming trend where people with disabilities are seeking assisted suicide due to social deprivation, poverty, and lack of essential supports,” said Krista Carr of Inclusion Canada, one of the groups leading the lawsuit, at a press conference on 26 September announcing the legal challenge. “This law also sends a devastating message that life with a disability is a fate worse than …
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2161
Voir la revue «BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 387»
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