MAID expansion advocates have wrongly appropriated the abortion debate

Abortion rights enable women to thrive in a society where they have historically faced inequality and access to safe abortions saves women’s lives. Track 2 medical assistance in dying ends the lives of disabled people, and disproportionately those of women. MAID for mental illness is not a disability right.

Before we even contemplate providing MAID for mental illness, people must be provided access to the services they need to thrive in a society that has thus far woefully failed to provide funding and proper mental health care and social supports for people, write Isabel Grant and Trudo Lemmens.Pexels photograph by Luis Dalvan

Opinion

BY ISABEL GRANT, TRUDO LEMMENS

February 21, 2024

The Liberals’ bill to delay expanding medical assistance in dying (MAID) for those with mental illness will protect many Canadians who would otherwise be at serious risk of premature death in our failing mental health-care system. Yet Daphne Gilbert, vice-chair of the boar...

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