2019 ruling struck down MAID only for those whose natural deaths are ‘reasonably foreseeable’
This is one of a number of changes to Bill C-7 proposed by the government
The House of Commons will debate on Tuesday
Canadian Psychiatric Association has denounced the exclusion as discriminatory, stigmatizing
A few Canadians suffering solely from severe, irremediable mental disorders have received assisted deaths
‘Our biggest fear has always been that having a disability would become an acceptable reason for state-provided suicide’
Medical aid in dying was legalized in Quebec in 2014 and then across Canada in June 2016.