{"id":1830,"date":"2015-02-27T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2015-03-01T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T14:41:45","slug":"assisted-death-time-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/assisted-death-time-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Assisted death: Time to act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once more, it is time to act on the issue of assisted  suicide. Write to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Justice Minister Peter MacKay,  as well as to your MP, to ask them to use the notwithstanding clause of the <em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em> to counter the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Carter case.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you probably \u00a0know, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously  decided that in certain circumstances physiacian-assisted death is no longer a  criminal act. The Supreme Court has suspended the effect of its decision for 12  months, not leaving much time to act to the Federal Government, given the  complexity of the issue and \u00a0the federal \u00a0elections scheduled for next fall.<\/p>\n<p>Living with Dignity and the Physicians' Alliance against  euthanasia insist that the notwithstanding clause be used to protect the most  vulnerable, such as our elders, people with disabilities, and even people with  depression, who are all at risk of an unjust and unnecessary death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your letter  should clearly state that you are asking the Parliament of Canada to use its  powers under the notwithstanding clause of the <em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em> to protect those \u00a0Canadians that are most vulnerable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may also want to discuss one of the following  points, or others that are of concern to you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many people with disabilities feel  threatened by assisted death.<\/li>\n<li>Suicide prevention is inconsistent \u00a0with assisted suicide.<\/li>\n<li>Freedom of conscience of physicians  and other healthcare professionals must be protected.<\/li>\n<li>A &quot;right to die&quot; should not  cause an obligation to kill.<\/li>\n<li>The vague criteria in the Supreme Court\u2019s  decision leave \u00a0the door wide open to  abuse ofall kind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contact  details to send your letters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  The Right  Honourable Stephen Harper<\/p>\n<p>  Office of the Prime Minister<\/p>\n<p>  80 Wellington St.<\/p>\n<p>  Ottawa ON K1A 0A2 (No stamp necessary)<\/p>\n<p>  Fax: 613-941-6900<\/p>\n<p>The  Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay<\/p>\n<p>  Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada<\/p>\n<p>  House of Commons<\/p>\n<p>  Ottawa ON K1A 0A6&nbsp;(No stamp necessary)<\/p>\n<p>  Fax: 613-954-0811<\/p>\n<p>Your Member  of Parliament (Name) MP<\/p>\n<p>  House of Commons<\/p>\n<p>  Ottawa ON K1A 0A6&nbsp;(No stamp necessary)<\/p>\n<p>  Find your MP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/parliamentarians\/en\/members\">http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/parliamentarians\/en\/members<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once more, it is time to act on the issue of assisted  suicide. Write to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Justice Minister Peter MacKay,  as well as to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}