Justice Minister David Lametti best to drop acute mental distress from MAID eligibility. My bet is that another 12 months of study and debate won’t make this issue go away. Opinion by andrewphil
The chorus of concern late last year about the rush to make this legal forced the government to slow things down. People all the way from the pro-life right to the social justice left raised a host of questions. We were hearing about more and more cases where sick people were choosing MAID because of poverty, homelessness and other “social suffering.”
The government seems to have convinced itself that the courts have tied its hands on this issue, and that MAID must be provided as a matter of right to those in acute distress from mental illness. , is that it’s basically impossible to know in cases of mental illness whether the condition is truly “irremediable,” i.e. cannot be cured or alleviated. The state of the science, he said, is such that “we cannot make these predictions.”
There’s also more and more evidence that some people really are choosing MAID for social as well as purely medical reasons. Asked about this, Lametti replied that “it’s not part of the criteria” for accessing doctor-assisted death, and that “people in that situation are not supposed to get MAID.”
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