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 now she wanted to interview him. Here is the

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 have spread and metastasized in other countries, barbaric places such as Belgium and

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 Constituents, she wrote: "I remember an unpleasant conversation from my apartment in

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 from a recent interaction between one of our physician members and

  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 C-7 puts them squarely

This post is a news wrap-up for the week of important stories from Canada and around the world. ANNOUNCEMENTS Please sign this petition calling on the House of Commons to: Restore the 10-day reflection period for people whose deaths have been determined to be "reasonably foreseeable" Restore the original requirement that a person must give