Considering the zeal by which some MAID providers glorify MAiD as a universal solution for 'suffering', we ought to be deeply deeply concerned by this judgment #euthanasia #maid
Trudo Lemmens
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Trudo Lemmens
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Law & Bioethics Prof @UTLaw; health (law), bioethics, disability rights, human rights etc... Persistant 🚴♂️🧏♂️ Alumnus @LawMcGill @KULeuvenLawCrim
- "Colin Furness, epidemiologist UofT, said companies should create office environments that can separate vaccinated and unvaccinated workers to help limit virus spread" There you go: calls for segregation based on pseudo-science
- someone w 'unbearable pain' can hardly exercise 'agency'. Pain can be addressed 99.9% cases. Offering to end their life in this situation = paradigm cases undue influence or coercion. And remarkable how one can ignore injustice of terrible prioritization w what is made availableWhen a person is in unbearable pain, they need the agency to end their pain. How they got to that point is another matter. As I said, the days on a stretcher causing bedsores was unconscionable. But you don’t correct one injustice, poor care, with another injustice, denying MAiD.
- “people & entities with conflicts created narratives that showed them as heroes while others without conflicts were smeared, simply because they were blocking the way of conflicted agendas” John Ioannidis on #covid politics interview @VPrasadMDMPH sensiblemed.substack.com/p/john-ioannid…
- “It's a shame that people come to think they have to take medical aid to die because that care is not there." Not just a shame; a scandal #MAID in Canada montreal.ctvnews.ca/i-can-t-live-t…
- Dutch government policy that permits involuntary #euthanasia of terminally ill children up to 12 years of age started today. Policy is said to apply in exceptional cases of v serious terminal illness & expected to be used in 5 to 10 cases per year.Vandaag gaat de regeling in die levensbeëindiging bij kinderen mogelijk maakt. Omdat het over wilsonbekwamen gaat, raakt deze discussie niet enkel kinderen. Met het leven beëindigen van wilsonbekwamen slaan we een geheel nieuwe weg in. Opinie @npvzorgnl nd.nl/opinie/opinie/…
- “Canada[‘s MAID/suicide] program, supposedly enabling the terminally ill to die with dignity, increasingly resembles a dystopian replacement for care services, exchanging social welfare for euthanasia.” @David_Moscrop
- Twitter quotes don’t do justice to this superbly insightful & moving commentary on #ableism & Canada’s #MAID #Euthanasia’s impact on disabled persons. A must read for anyone interested in health care & policy. It’s about so much more than MAiD free spaces…policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/apri…
- Replying to @TrudoLemmensFather says his daughter is "generally healthy and believes that her physical symptoms, to the extent that she has any, result from undiagnosed psychological conditions." Her only known diagnoses described in court earlier this month are autism and ADHD.
- Replying to @TrudoLemmensHere is an example of the morbid fetishing of self-determination: "M.V.'s dignity and right to self-determination outweighs the important matters raised by W.V. and the harm that he will suffer in losing M.V." What about harm to M.V? 'Choice' outweighs harm from being killed...
- Replying to @TrudoLemmens""The inability to review clinical judgment of [MAID assessors] precludes the court from going behind the medical assessments to question whether M.V.'s sole condition is mental illness or disability." In other words: system grants full idiosyncratic power to zealous providers...
- "MAiD should never have been an option for mental illness. It is a travesty that we ever considered going down this path. It should be abandoned permanently." Ramona Coelho
- Replying to @StatCan_eng and @tefrinAs an organization committed to producing reliable data & information relevant for Canadians, you should alert government about the embarrassing & problematic nature of this practice. People DO NOT DIE of being disabled or of mental illness. It is the procedure that kills them
- Canada's shame is gaining international attention: "Canada is plunging toward a human rights disaster for disabled people" @haroldbraswell
