Assisted-dying bill exploited by all sides

The church and its health-care providers may see a way out. But it puts institutions ahead of the rights of dying patients. The blame for that rests with a government that gives the church the room to take that road.
OTTAWA—When it comes to physician-assisted dying, should the beliefs of a health-care institution trump a Charter right of a suffering patient? It shouldn't, but we may ultimately get to that point. That is only one result of the curiously timid legislation on assisted dying introduced last week...

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