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41% of Canadians support doctors refusing MAID for religious reasons
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/41-of-canadians-say-doctors-should-be-allowed-to-refuse-maid-for-religious-reasons"Gabrielle Peters, a disabled writer and policy analyst, said in an interview with National Post: “The idea of intentionally killing somebody is something that many people object to, and so I think this is a pretty fundamental right that we should be preserving in our society".
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"Euphemisms in the assisted dying debate cloak it in language of compassion and discretion, but behind the veil there are some ugly truths. Some MPs debating the law are offended by terms such as suicide and killing, but if we hide from the reality of the words we use in the debate, we will also hide from the reality of the law."
https://tomtugendhat.substack.com/p/white-lies-hide-dark-truths
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"They’re being asked, in Track 2 cases, to approve and facilitate suicide, or to refuse to do so, after assessing a patient’s purely subjective suffering. One uneasy physician interviewee asks: “If you want to allow people to end their lives when they want to, then put suicide kits in hardware stores, right?”"
#ColbyCosh has some thoughts on a recent #NYTimes piece about Canada's #MAiD programme.