An Indefensible Amendment to Medical Assistance in Dying Legislation

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Article

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

MAiD, Healthcare Policy, End of Life Care, Mental Illness

Abstract

In a mere 18 words, the federal government has introduced an amendment to Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation that is discriminatory, stigmatizing and simultaneously overbroad and impermissibly vague and arbitrary. Furthermore, it is logically incoherent and takes away access to MAiD that is available under the current law.

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