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MAID in Canada
An article in The Atlantic explores the side effects of nine years of euthanasia in Canada.
The laws surrounding MAID are unclear and mostly assign responsibility to medical practitioners to determine if patients qualify, which means the entire thing is basically one giant loophole allowing legally assisted death. For some disabled citizens, the availability of assisted death has sowed doubt about how the medical establishment itself sees them — about whether their lives are in fact considered worthy of saving. I have my own personal qualms with MAID and am unsure I would ever request it, even if my death were “reasonably foreseeable.” However, I don’t accept my morals to be deterministic of national law, and I do not think that anything in our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would suggest otherwise, particularly in the twenty-first century.
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