Posted on 03/25/2024 1:11:50 PM PDT by jerod
'Dignity and right to self-determination' outweigh parent's concerns, judge says
A Calgary judge has issued a ruling that clears the way for a 27-year-old woman to receive medical assistance in dying (MAID) despite her father's attempts through the courts to prevent that from happening.
A publication ban protects the identities of the parties and the medical professionals. CBC News will identify the daughter as M.V. and the father as W.V.
While Justice Colin Feasby acknowledged the "profound grief" that W.V. would suffer with the death of his child, he ruled the loss of M.V.'s autonomy was more important.
"M.V.'s dignity and right to self-determination outweighs the important matters raised by W.V. and the harm that he will suffer in losing M.V.," wrote Feasby in his 34-page written decision issued Monday.
"Though I find that W.V. has raised serious issues, I conclude that M.V.'s autonomy and dignity interests outweigh competing considerations."
Decision stayed pending potential appeal
Feasby's decision sets aside an interim injunction the father was granted the day before M.V.'s assisted suicide was set to take place in the family's home.
But the judge also issued a 30-day stay of his decision so that W.V. can take the case to the Alberta Court of Appeal, which means the interim injunction will remain in place for the next month.
M.V. lives with her father and was approved for MAID in December.
She did not file any court documents explaining how she came to qualify for MAID.
Lawyer Austin Paladeau said the case boils down to his client's right to medical autonomy and argued W.V.'s love for his daughter "does not give him the right to keep her alive against her wishes."
'She is generally healthy'
But W.V. believes his daughter "is vulnerable and is not competent to make the decision to take her own life," according to Feasby's summary of the father's position.
"He says that she is generally healthy and believes that her physical symptoms, to the extent that she has any, result from undiagnosed psychological conditions."
Her only known diagnoses described in court earlier this month are autism and ADHD...
Being on the spectrum and having ADHD can make it seem like you are on your on special circle of hell.
I’ll ask again, what use are the suicide hotlines anymore? Are they completely obsolete? If it’s a “right” for someone to kill themselves with a doctor’s help, isn’t this right being infringed when a phone counselor tries to interfere?
If you want to off yourself, off yourself.
Don’t drag other people into it.
It’s easy enough to get your hands on a hot-shot of fentanyl these days.
Remember when ADHD was just called ‘ants in your pants’?
Legally killing off the mentally ill by exploiting their sickness and accomodating their wishes... Hitler is smiling from Hell.
” M.V.’s assisted suicide was set to take place in the family’s home.”
Mr. WV, don’t let them in your house.
Margaret Sanger and Tommy Douglas are smiling too... That was why they loved and supported eugenics so much, along with their buddy Adolf... Get rid of the deadwood.
I.E. The poor and deformed with abortions and the mentally ill and old people with euthanasia.
So many times I've wanted to be dead and beyond the pain.
At times I've tried to act on that.
The disease never goes away completely. You never forget the pain. Especially the things you did while depressed or manic.
I lost a marriage to bipolar disorder, among many other things.
I can understand where this young woman is coming from. Because I've been there.
I am very thankful that I am still here though. With each new day it seems I learn how to deal more with the pain. I've spent half of my life living with this disease and I feel more alive in spite of it than I ever have before. I turn fifty next week and I couldn't be more excited about where God is taking me in my life.
I have only heard of a ADHD child being distractable.
So, I take it that this woman does not even have a terminal illness?
While I agree with you that suicide is no solution, but imagine being hated by seemingly everybody, and I mean hated enough they would celebrate you being dead, just because you exist. You’ve done nothing wrong and you don’t have a bad word to say about anybody, but everybody hates you. Those who don’t hate you, simply don’t know you.
When you have the combo of ADHD and spectrum, that’s how it is and you are sometimes aware of this, but you don’t have the wherewithal to make it better.
“. Let me see if I have this clear: Canada will not give a person the death penalty if they have committed a terrible crime? But they will give the death penalty to someone who is innocent for the crime of depression/mental illness? “
Exactly !
But this is the end-state of post-Christian Progressivism.
Although just like drug legalization, the target of this is Canada’s white population.
If it was minorities doing this, or overdoing on fentanyl, it would become a “problem” or “crisis” which would have to be reduced.
dad doesn’t want to lose the live in maid?
She probably lives at home because she can’t function outside of a safe environment. She probably would have ended up homeless or dead if she was on her own.
Don’t even have to be born to get the death penalty.
Hitler killed people against their will. These are people who are begging to die due to physical or mental attacks on the body. Huge difference.
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