Commentary The March 31, 2005, court-ordered death of Terri Schiavo was an ominous cultural tipping point. As many readers will recall, the legal case began when Terri’s husband Michael Schiavo applied to remove the feeding tube from his profoundly cognitively disabled wife so that she would die by dehydration. When Terri’s parents Bob and Mary…
Doctors Should Not Be Forced to Participate in Assisted Suicide
Commentary How quickly laws that supposedly protect someone’s “right” to do something become laws that force other people to participate, whether they morally agree or not. We’ve especially seen this with same-sex marriage. We decide that any two adults who love each other have a right to sanctify their union with government-recognized wedlock. That’s nice,…
Anthony Furey: Canada’s Assisted Suicide Rules Are Shocking Everyone
Commentary The terms permissive or progressive don’t do justice to the expansion of assisted suicide in Canada that’s happened practically overnight. Outrageous and unacceptable are a bitter fit. In recent months, Canadians have been shocked by news stories about people who have considered, been offered, or been approved for what we call “medical assistance in…
Fatal Flaws: Legalizing Assisted Death
This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Should we be giving doctors the right to end the lives of others by euthanasia or assisted suicide? Fatal Flaws: Legalizing Assisted Death is a thought-provoking journey through Europe and North America to find answers to this question. Some 20 years after…
Parliamentary Committee to Start Report on Expanding Eligibility for Assisted Dying
A special joint parliamentary committee will now consider its report on current legislation on assisted death and whether to expand who is eligible to opt for it. The committee of MPs and senators is considering whether medically assisted dying should be expanded to people solely suffering from mental illness and mature minors. It is also…
Quebec Drops Section of Assisted-Death Bill to Ensure It Gets Adopted Quickly
The Quebec government is removing a section of its end-of-life care bill that would have allowed quadriplegics and people with cerebral palsy to receive an assisted death. Health Minister Christian Dubé told reporters today he is making the change to ensure the bill passes quickly through the legislature before the summer break and fall election….
Canadians Not Near Death Gain Access to Assisted Dying as Senate Passes Bill C-7
OTTAWA—The Senate has passed a bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying, including eventually to people suffering solely from mental illnesses. By a vote of 60-25, with five abstentions, senators accepted Wednesday a revised version of Bill C-7, even though the government rejected or modified amendments made by the Senate. The bill also…
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