Eric Mathison

Assistant professor of philosophy @UTSC. I write about ethics at and make videos at

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

Thank you. Do Catholic hospitals next.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Biden should resign to mess up all of Trump's 47-branded merch.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@drjamiewatson I'm happy to buy a time share for that Norwegian writing cabin you were thinking about a while back!

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@drjamiewatson I'm here for you buddy.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@historykev This is discussed in Carter. Since s. 7 was enough, they didn't address s. 15, but they described the lower court argument:

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

A lot of people are saying.

[Abhishek Saha @ObhishekSaha]

Dignity for some is fundamentally inseparable from agency and autonomy. To me the failure of the anti AS proponents to recognise this is disappointing. At its core, opposition to AS is driven by particular value judgements, which those affected may not share. The argument for AS is fundamentally an argument for freedom and against paternalism.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@igrantubc @hannahshewans Because we don't know that women are accessing MAID at a greater rate because of their social inequality. We don't know that social inequality has anything to do with it.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

It's truly wild to fill this article with stats but not mention that slightly more men get assisted dying, that Kim Leadbeater, a woman, tabled the bill, and that Liz Carr and Esther Rantzen are prominent voices in the debate. @hannahshewans

https://t.co/XenxXbvJVG

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@RachelCDailey @hannahshewans That's not my feeling, which is why I haven't said it.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@FeministaCanada @hannahshewans This isn't true. Here's the data from the 2022 report. Here's the link: https://t.co/utHIpbxNBx

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@RachelCDailey @hannahshewans I'm aware that writers don't normally choose their headlines, so it's not Hannah's fault, but this one is particularly bad.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Most places, including Canada and Oregon, don't break down the reasons people give by gender, so while your predictions are possible, where's the data that it's actually happening?

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Here's Canada:

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Which data are you finding? Here's the Netherlands:

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Here's Oregon:

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@RachelCDailey @hannahshewans My point that slightly more men have assisted dying was in response to Hannah's claim that "Women are also a potentially vulnerable group." The worry that women will have assisted dying in greater numbers isn't supported by the data in places where it's legal.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@RachelCDailey Which assumptions did I incorrectly make? @hannahshewans's claim is that women are being left out of the debate. My response is that women are, in fact, well represented in the debate: a woman tabled the bill, Carr has her own BBC documentary, Rantzen is in the news, etc.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

@hannahshewans Yes. I'm wondering how a woman with her own BBC documentary about assisted dying supports your thesis that women are being left out of the debate.

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

Last year, I stopped reading the news. I think you should too. Welcome to No News November.

https://t.co/atncd7SIZE

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

I evaluate the gender claim here: https://t.co/Wx7xYvjtne

I evaluate the marginalization claim here:
https://t.co/KBpJKDqm65

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

Since there were only 116 track-2 deaths, it's important to look at the raw numbers. 28.4% of people in the lowest material-resource quintile is an extra 9 people from an even distribution. The gender imbalance is due to 26 more women than men having T2 MAID.

[Sonu Gaind @Psych_MD]

In yesterday's @bmj_latest, several pieces on #AssistedDying . Here's my response, up on BMJ now, to the editorial:

https://t.co/OMmLTSt610

@AlexanderRaikin @yuanyi_z @uoftmedicine @APApsychiatric @OntariosDoctors @OntPsychAssoc @TrudoLemmens

[Eric Mathison @mathisonej]

The data simply don't support Gaind's conclusion of 'social murder'.