The growing–and controversial–the right-to-die movement in Canada continues to simmer as the Supreme Court prepares for an October debate of the issue.
The Canadian Medical Association recently softened its stand on the issue, declaring “the right of all physicians within the bonds of existing laws to follow their conscience when deciding whether to provide so-called medical aid in dying.”
On Monday, the widow of the man who led the fight in the 2003 Toronto SARS crisis called the CMA stance “a huge turnaround” and says she hopes it would lead to a change in official policy,
Maureen Taylor says she “supports the right to die with dignity” and so did her husband.
Ms. Taylor says she watched her husband. Dr. Donald Low, slowly lose control over his body before he died from a brain tumour in September, 2013.
She says eight days before his death, Dr. Low recorded a video in which he passionately made a case for legalizing doctor-assisted suicide.
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