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In case anyone thinks the Canadian approach to euthanasia is the best or only approach, we have only to look to our nearest neighbour for proof to the contrary.

Recently the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Juridical Affairs, having received a request from the Oregon delegation that the AMA  take a neutral stance on physician “aid-in-dying”, instead reaffirmed the very clear statements in the existing Code of Ethics regarding both euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide:

Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally ...

In response to our January post, we received the following letter from Dr. Jeff Blackmer of the CMA. Our comments on the letter may be found here >>

I read with great interest the recent unattributed blog post on the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia website entitled “Canada before the World Medical Association: Representation, or Misrepresentation?”. As the primary subject of this post, I welcome this opportunity to provide additional clarity, and a few counterpoints, to some of the issues ...

It would be safe to say that, even three years ago, no one would have dared propose medically assisted death as a standard end of life treatment in Canada.

Of course not. The roots of public support for MAID lie in its proposal as an affirmation of personal autonomy. MAID was to be an exceptional option: to allow people to choose death at the hands of willing doctors. The motivation was political, not medical. Few would have suggested that there could ...

On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, the Ontario Divisional Court released its decision in the lawsuit led by a coalition of doctors against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), regarding the requirement that doctors who have ethical objections to certain acts (including euthanasia) must refer their patients to other health care providers who will carry out those acts.

The Court found that the religious freedom rights of Ontario doctors are significantly violated by the CPSO’s policies, but that those violations ...