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.
@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.
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
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@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.
@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?
@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.
@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.
@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.
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.