The parliamentary commission on Bill 52 has heard from five groups on this 8th day of public consultation. It has been suggested to separate medical aid in dying from palliative care and to elaborate another law concerning medical aid in dying. One of the groups has radically changed\u00a0positions and no longer supports the bill while another group has stated that they are very preoccupied\u00a0with the impact a law such as this may have and what risks it would pose to the security of people with disabilities.<\/p>\n
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Invited groups<\/strong><\/p>\n After having heard so many groups affirm that medical aid in dying (or euthanasia) is not a treatment and should not be included in a law on palliative care, the Quebec Liberal Party has asked if it would not be preferable to elaborate a separate law on medical aid in dying.<\/p>\n In his presentation on behalf of the Research and Intervention Center on Suicide and Euthanasia, Dr. Brian Mishara gave the best answer to the question. Whether we be speaking of one or\u00a0two laws, he said, one thing must be clear: medical aid in dying mustn't be considered like a treatment, neither palliative, nor \"end-of-life\".\u00a0What's more, we have to make palliative care available to all those who need it.<\/p>\n During the consultation that brought about Bill 52, NOVA Montreal was in agreement with the idea of\u00a0euthanasia. But today in parliamentary commission, the organisation pronounced itself against such a practice. Its position radically changed following an in-depth\u00a0study\u00a0on the question. The spokespeople for\u00a0NOVA stated that we musn't think of euthanasia as long as palliative care isn't available to everyone\u00a0- they share the same point of view as\u00a0CRISE.<\/p>\n As for AQIS, they\u00a0fear for the security of people with disabilities. Although the \"end-of-life\"\u00a0concept\u00a0is included in the preliminary versions of the bill, the eligibility criteria to access medical aid in dying does not specify that a person must be facing imminent death. As formulated, the bill allows people with disabilities to access medical aid in dying. AQIS underlined the enormous risk that people with mental impairments\u00a0who are considered fit\u00a0face; many are very influencable and would not understand the gravity of\u00a0such an\u00a0action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The parliamentary commission on Bill 52 has heard from five groups on this 8th day of public consultation. It has been suggested to separate medical aid in dying from palliative …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Separate law<\/h3>\n
About-face<\/h3>\n
Risks for the handicapped<\/h3>\n