Today we continue to hear from experts on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, which seems to have spiralled beyond anyone’s worst imaginings.
Tonight, we have three powerhouse legal academics: feminists who work to limit the terrible excesses of Canada’s MAID. Fiona and Chelsea were so pleased to speak with:
Professor Emerita Elizabeth Sheehy, latterly professor of criminal law at the University of Ottowa
Professor Isabel Grant, specialist in criminal law at the Peter Allard School of Law at the University of BC,
Professor Janine Benedet, who explores legal responses to men’s sexual violence against women at Peter A. Allard School of Law at University of BC.
These women are truly fabulous: clear talking, clear thinking, and absolutely on the side of women. They also do most of their work on MAID unfunded. Their recent discussion and paper says that MAID is “a modern form of eugenics”. In this wideranging discussion we learn:
How MAID’s wild expansion was won through campaigning and courts: but ultimately the Canadian parliament decided to pursue each major expansion in the law.
Those who deliver death have expanded the law even further in practice.
The role of (male) mercy killers (of women) in the campaign for assisted death,
What safeguards against coercion are
That we won’t know about men who pressure family members into MAID unless someone speaks out.
How death has become part of the menu of options proposed - pushed - to vulnerable people seeking healthcare. Even psychiatric care.
The silence of the feminist organisations as MAID unfurled its horrors
the weird funders of death including an airport authority
Up next: the family doctor who investigates MAID and the palliative care expert
