Weekly Update: 9-Apr-2022 to 15-Apr-2022
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Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 9-Apr-2022 to 15-Apr-2022.
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Sister Nuala Kenny and the Right to Assistance in Dying
Guest post by Eric MacDonald It was announced on 14th August 2015 that an inter-Provincial-Territorial advisory group on physician assisted dying was being formed. This seems almost to be a “tu quoque” to the Harper government’s risible appointment of an expert panel on assisted dying that included three members, two of which had given evidence… Read more »
Recommended Reading
On July 17 the Department of Justice published a news release announcing that the Government of Canada has established and external panel on options for a legislative response to Carter v. Canada. On July 18, Udo Schuklenk posted “Conservative Government Tries to Con Canadians on Assisted Dying” on his website Udo Schuklenk’s Ethx Blog: “Canada’s… Read more »
Physician-Assisted Suicide
In the video below, from The Atheist Voice series, Hemant Mehta explains why he supports the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on physician-assisted suicide: Please consider supporting Hemant Mehta’s blog, Friendly Atheist, his videos, and podcasts on Patreon.
If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?
“If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?” said Sue Rodriguez in 1991 when she asked legislators to change the law to allow for assisted suicide. It is Rodriguez’s weak voice I hear when I listen to the groups who oppose the Supreme Court’s historic decision in the Carter… Read more »