{"id":6651,"date":"2016-03-06T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6651"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:23:51","slug":"assisted-death-recognize-this-new-right-but-carefully-limit-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6651","title":{"rendered":"Assisted death: Recognize this new right, but carefully limit it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Globe and Mail<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Editorial<\/p>\n<p>Suicide is not the answer, generally speaking. But we are not speaking generally when we talk about drafting a law legalizing and regulating physician-assisted suicide \u2013 a law the Supreme Court of Canada has told Parliament to enact by June 6.<\/p>\n<p>The new law will ease and enable suicide, normalizing what in most circumstances is a harmful, undesirable act by fitting it into a compassionate health-care system through the exculpatory power of legislation. As such \u2013 as a necessary exception to all the rules and norms that constitute our traditional sense of collective good, which focuses on extending life rather than ending it \u2013 the coming law on physician-assisted dying needs to be extremely specific and tightly defined. . . [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/editorials\/assisted-death-recognize-this-new-right-but-carefully-limit-it\/article29036385\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail Editorial Suicide is not the answer, generally speaking. But we are not speaking generally when we talk about drafting a law legalizing and regulating physician-assisted suicide \u2013 a law the Supreme Court of Canada has told Parliament to enact by June 6. The new law will ease and enable suicide, normalizing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assisted death: Recognize this new right, but carefully limit it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,32,4,162],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-euthanasia"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Assisted death: Recognize this new right, but carefully limit it - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6651\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assisted death: Recognize this new right, but carefully limit it - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Globe and Mail Editorial Suicide is not the answer, generally speaking. 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