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Writing gross summary statements like that is simple. Anyone can do it. Now how about backing up your claim ? What's not remotely informative about the followi
by vixen99 4y ago
Writing gross summary statements like that is simple. Anyone can do it. Now how about backing up your claim ?
What's not remotely informative about the following extracts? Or are they untrue? It's an opinion piece but there's not much of that in the following.
"Canadian parliament enacted Bill C-7, a sweeping euthanasia law which repealed the ‘reasonably foreseeable’ requirement – and the requirement that the condition should be ‘terminal’.?
"In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada reversed 22 years of its own jurisprudence by striking down the country’s ban on assisted suicide as unconstitutional"
"The next year, Parliament duly enacted legislation allowing euthanasia, but only for those who suffer from a terminal illness whose natural death was ‘reasonably foreseeable’.
'Not coincidentally, Canada has some of the lowest social care spending of any industrialised country, palliative care is only accessible to a minority, and waiting times in the public healthcare sector can be unbearable, to the point where the same Supreme Court which legalised euthanasia declared those waiting times to be a violation of the right to life back in 2005.'
Please note that I'm not getting into the rights or wrongs of the debate on euthanasia.
- Neil44 4y agoI can accept that more 'poor people' might make use of euthanasia than 'rich people' by whatever metric you choose to define those terms. Poorer people tend to have worse health overall for various reasons, also there are a lot more of them. But the main issue I have with the headline is that Canada is not specifically euthanising the poor in the way that is implied. The statistical differences are clearly an emergence of many complex effects and situations, so to imply otherwise is inflamatory and pretty much text book hyperbole.