Seeking a "Right" to die (assisted) vs the 'right' to be born (assisted or otherwise).

Assisted-suicide ruling to be appealed by Ottawa

Civil-liberties lawyer calls move 'perplexing' in case of terminally ill B.C. woman

CBC News

Posted: Jul 13, 2012 1:48 PM ET

Last Updated: Jul 13, 2012 6:52 PM ET

The federal government will appeal last month's ruling by the British Columbia Supreme Court that partially struck down Canada's ban on assisted suicide, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says.

The ruling declared that the Criminal Code section targeting anyone who "aids or abets a person to commit suicide" should not apply to physicians in cases where terminally ill patients request to die.

Judge Lynn Smith halted her decision for a year to give Parliament a chance to rewrite the law, which she deemed unconstitutional which she deemed unconstitutional because it unfairly deprives people with degenerative illnesses of their liberty, and because it discriminates against those with a physical disability who might need assistance to exercise their right to take their own life. (emphasis added)

But she also granted an immediate exemption for Gloria Taylor, one of the women who brought the suit, and her doctor.

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Taylor and the other plaintiffs in the case argued that the ban on assisted suicide violates Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it discriminates against people with degenerative conditions who don't have the physical means to take their own lives. (emphasis added)

They also argued the ban violates their Section 7 right to life because, if they do want to end their suffering, they would have to do so earlier than they might otherwise want, before they lose the capacity to act. (emphasis added)

Very inneresting .... but such a tiny slice of the overarching principles behind "liberty", "freedom", "rights", "discrimination".... what about folks who don't have the physical means to prevent themselves from BEING killed? or from being stopped from being BORN?

I am thinking of those who are a) "judged" to be  lost causes -physically fine, but ?brain-dead? b) who are "judged" to be not-yet-human beings -physically fine but still inside their mother?

If we as Canadians decide/are told that it's okay (and better for society) to kill 100,000 unborn infants every yr (while suffering a population decline that destroys the baby-boom assumptions backing all our "social programs") ...are we not far away from being told that it's okay (and better for society) to kill off 10,000-50,000-100,000 "lost causes that are consuming such a great portion of our Healthcare budget" - since without these "unproductive" fiscal "burdens", there will be "more" left for you & me?


NB In Canada (thanks to the 1982 Charter of Conditions and Limitations on our Previously Enjoyed Common Law Rights & Freedoms) the "rights"  that are claimed/asserted/demanded/believed to be true/etc in Section 2 AND Section 7 thru 15 are subject to the Notwithstanding override + subject to "justified" infringement under Section 1 - thanks for less-than-what-we-had (which is WORSE than nothing) Messrs Trudeau, Chretien, Romanov, McMurtry, Davis, Hatfield et al

Why did we need to introduce a "Code" into a "Common Law" Jurisdiction?



Look up Eugenics & Fabianism  ... then syndicalism and "Corporatism"(a la Mussolini)


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