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Jun 26, 2024 | 
vancouversun.com | Jocelyn Downie |Daphne Gilbert
Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1Opinion: Providing a separate St. Paul’s-adjacent space for patients to receive MAID does not address the harms of forced transfers • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentLast week, a lawsuit was filed challenging Providence Health Care’s policy to not allow the provision of medical assistance in dying (MAID) within their walls.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Jocelyn Downie
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
policyoptions.irpp.org | Jocelyn Downie |Daphne Gilbert
“B.C. Ministry of Health pledges to build a corridor of sin.” That should have been the headline attached to B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix’s recent announcement that he will instruct Vancouver Coastal Health to make room next to the city’s St. Paul’s Hospital for a dedicated clinical and care space where patients from the hospital can receive “compassionate and dignified MAiD services.” Canada’s medical assistance in dying law allows adults to receive MAiD if: They have a...
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
nationalnewswatch.com | Jocelyn Downie
ByPublishedShareCanada is on the verge of allowing medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition (MAiD MD-SUMC). Or is it? The current MAiD law contains what is known as “the sunset clause” – a clause in the Criminal Code that said that the current exclusion of MAiD MD-SUMC was due to be automatically repealed on March 17, 2023. Last Winter, the federal Parliament passed legislation to extend the exclusion by one additional year.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
nationalnewswatch.com | James Cowan |Jocelyn Downie
Picture two people with the capacity to make decisions about medical assistance in dying (MAiD). Both have serious and incurable illnesses, are in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability, and are experiencing enduring, unrelievable, and intolerable suffering. The first person, with a physical illness, can have access to medical assistance in dying. The second person, with a mental illness, cannot.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
dal.ca | Françoise Baylis |Jocelyn Downie
Françoise Baylis is Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita at Dalhousie University and Jocelyn Downie is a Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Dalhousie University. On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
thehindu.com | Jocelyn Downie |Francois Baylis
On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). This research could increase our understanding of human development and genetic disorders, help us learn how to prevent early miscarriages, lead to improvements in fertility treatment, and — perhaps — eventually allow for reproduction without using sperm and eggs.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ruthie Jeanneret |Eliana Close |Lindy Willmott |Jocelyn Downie
1 Introduction Assisted dying (AD) has been legalised in a small but growing number of jurisdictions globally, including Canada and Australia [1]. In Canada, a federal legislative framework for AD was introduced via Bill C-14 in 2016 [2, 3], and amended in 2021 by Bill C-7 [4]. All six Australian states have passed laws since 2017 [5].
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
thehansindia.com | Françoise Baylis |Jocelyn Downie
On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). This research could increase our understanding of human development and genetic disorders, help us learn how to prevent early miscarriages, lead to improvements in fertility treatment, and — perhaps — eventually allow for reproduction without using sperm and eggs.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Françoise Baylis |Jocelyn Downie
By: Françoise Baylis, Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University and Jocelyn Downie, Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie University, The Conversation Print Email Read Later This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Read this article for free: Email Address: Password: I agree to the Terms and...
