On Wednesday March 24th, Dr. Will Johnston received an email from reporter Annie Burns-Pieper stating that she had posed as a pregnant woman and accessed the Abortion Pill Rescue Hotline. She had been put in touch with him, he had prescribed progesterone to her and...
Our cautious start to assisted suicide is now an accelerating drive toward death-on-demand “The irony is that the very foundation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Carter was that there was no such slippery slope. Perhaps assisted suicide, once legalized, might...
Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett has been speaking out about the increasing discrimination ageing Canadians are facing. Minister Bennett even goes so far as to say that COVID-19 is raising concerns about “the pandemic of ageism.” A Personal Story In an Update to...
Brief Submitted to the Senate Committee Studying Bill C-7: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) Since Bill C-7 will primarily affect people who are vulnerable and marginalized, I would like to begin this brief by sharing a vignette...
Dr. Margaret Cottle is a palliative care physician. She recently wrote to her MP on the issuce of Bill C-7 and agreed that I could publish it. Here is the letter: Citizens living with disabilities are overwhelmingly in agreement that the legislation proposed in bill...
