{"id":10550,"date":"2021-02-11T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2021-03-05T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:09:50","slug":"how-bill-c-7-will-sacrifice-the-medical-professions-standard-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10550","title":{"rendered":"How Bill C-7 will sacrifice the medical profession&#8217;s standard of care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amendments to assisted dying laws are a stunning reversal of the central role of the medical and legal concept of the standard of care<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trudo Lemmens, Mary Shariff, Leonie Herx<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As Parliament discusses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parl.ca\/LegisInfo\/BillDetails.aspx?billId=10648716&amp;Language=E\">Bill C-7<\/a>\u2019s expansion of the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Act, one issue has been conspicuously absent from public debate, even though it has major implications for medicine and for patients: the impact of the bill on the role of the medical profession in determining the standard of care, as it applies to MAiD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government introduced Bill C-7 in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/qc\/qccs\/doc\/2019\/2019qccs3792\/2019qccs3792.html\">the decision<\/a> of Quebec Superior Court Justice Christine Beaudouin (in the <em>Truchon <\/em>case), who ruled unconstitutional the current law\u2019s limiting of MAiD to those whose natural death is \u201creasonably foreseeable.\u201d. . .  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