A response to “Doctors can’t refuse to help a patient die – no matter what they say”, a column by University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran. He refers to the alleged “corrosive hostility” of the Canadian Medical Association to “physician-assisted dying” and its “cowardly and stupid” position on the procedure, including support for physician freedom of conscience. [Full text – Amir Attaran and the elves]
Podcast Contents
Introduction (00 – 01:40)
Attaran: CMA siding with “bigots” (02:11 – 4:50 )
Attaran: “they cannot refuse” (05:23 – 06:33)
What Professor Attaran left out (06:34 – 08:15 )
Professor Attaran then and now (08:50 – 09:56)
Law on abortion vs. law on homicide (09:57 – 11:32)
A difference in perspective (11:33 – 13:12)
What else Professor Attaran left out (13:13 – 18:38)
Getting the facts backwards (19:11 – 20:50 )