This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Supreme Court of Canada has announced to soon revisit the issue of assisted suicide. In a recently released order, the court agreed to hear an appeal in the case of Kay Carter and Gloria Taylor, who previously managed to briefly overturn the assisted suicide law in 2012. Consequently, a BC judge ruled the law unconstitutional, though the ruling was delayed for a year in order to allow the federal government to rewrite the statute. The provincial court of appeal has now decided to overturn that decision.
Consequently, all supporters of assisted suicide are celebrating today’s ruling. A representative of BC Civil Liberties Association, Grace Pastine, mentioned that “there are few rights more fundamental or more deeply personal than the right to determine how much suffering to endure at the end of life and whether to seek a doctor’s assistance to hasten death.” On the other hand, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of BC, Will Johnston, hopes the court will end the debate and mentioned that “it seems quite obvious that the small number of jurisdictions which have adopted assisted suicide and euthanasia, that there have been significant abuses.”
BC’s highest court upheld the current laws against assisted suicide in a decision made last October. Another woman suffering from multiple sclerosis, Elayne Shapray, has since joined the case. The high court has announced the decision almost more than 20 years after its landmark ruling on the issue in the case of Sue Rodriguez, which went against assisted suicide.
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