Article content continuedThe Carter ruling had not mapped out an entire legislative scheme for MAID — why, that’s the job of legislators, don’t you know. But according to the principles outlined in Carter, there was no obvious justification for denying MAID to people with diseases that may worsen with age, but have an uncertain mortality outcome. The Liberal MAID law 1.0 was preventing some disabled people from exercising what had been agreed to be a right — and was doing it on the grounds that the duration of their suffering was unpredictable. That phraseology about a “reasonable foreseeable” death plays a larger role in the new law than ever. C-7 still divides Canadians seeking euthanasia into reasonably foreseeables (RFs) and others.

Source: National Post October 10, 2020 07:07 UTC