Trudo Lemmens

Law & Bioethics Prof @UTLaw; health (law), bioethics, disability rights, human rights etc... Persistant 🚴‍♂️🧏‍♂️ Alumnus @LawMcGill @KULeuvenLawCrim

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

I say this as a patient, as a disabled person, as someone who has written and read about MAiD/assisted dying for decades - READ THIS. It is positively brilliant & I don't lavish praise easily. It is consistent with my own experience & that as someone who's worked on this issue.

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@amclinehan @rljcoelho @globeandmail that is not a response to my point: you criticize a call for better safeguards and protection as 'denying autonomy'. But to take this to its logical conclusion: any form of review denies autonomy; + requesting that docs or nurses end your life is not just about you choosing

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

“Avoiding unnecessary deaths
requires clear statutory definitions of reasonably foreseeable natural death," "grievous and irremediable," and "intolerable suffering," along with oversight to stop interpretive drift and doctor-shopping.” Great Oped @rljcoelho @globeandmail

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Jocelyn Downie argues a physical disability opens the MAID door, even if the person's decline is driven by mental illness. Her opinions increase existing dangers that people with disabilities get MAID instead of suicide prevention and care.

Concerns noted by both UNCRPD & IASP

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

Media covering those who give up while continuing to sideline and ignore disabled people who fight MAiD should be understood clearly as a refusal to cover opposition to MAiD from a disabled - corporate charity doesn’t count - pov while continuing to act as spreader/contagion.

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

Asking the state that refuses to fund your health care to kill you instead is not an act of protest. It is not a political act.

It’s a tragedy.

Any who agree to kill those who give up are carrying out state policy - like an executioner.

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

One of the ways in which #maid #euthanasia has changed conversations about health care in Canada: another story of how MAID becomes fall-back position for problems accessing high-cost care https://t.co/QT8oUrGVTZ

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@amclinehan @rljcoelho @globeandmail Is a healthy person denied their autonomy, since the law doesn't allow a doctor to lethally inject them, with full state funding? Do we deny autonomy with suicide prevention? Autonomy is not just choice. If so, the entire MAID scheme, with its approval system, denies autonomy

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@tylerblack32 Thanks for reposting

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@tylerblack32 Ok. Thanks

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@tylerblack32 I'll send it by e-mail

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@tylerblack32 Here responses on claim of misrepresentation of difference between Canadian and Dutch law

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@tylerblack32

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@MAiDCanada2016 and your framing "just like the other anti-MAID people and groups" undermines your entire argument that you respect disagreement + reveals you don't really engage with what those who disagree write

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@MAiDCanada2016 I don't pay for long tweets. So short: good you share concerns about AR. As for the rest: if you read anything I've written, you know you're making a caricature out of how I engage w arguments. So much for respectful engagement. I don't call people stupid when they disagree.

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@MAiDCanada2016 About time then you accept evidence of problems. Your denialism undermines your credibility. That is a far cry from letting people to make up their own mind

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@MAiDCanada2016 And the non-appeal of Truchon was clearly also a decision during elections, announced by Trudeau on show in Quebec… very questionable decision from constitutional perspective

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@MAiDCanada2016 I didn’t complain about not being heard. You misrepresent. I complained about a senator falsely accusing me of inventing facts & using inappropriate terminology, while that terminology was explicitly used in Dutch debate + using other witnesses to attack + not allow response

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@MAiDCanada2016 as to your questions: you can read my arguments in my writings and engage with them. Remarkable how everyone who criticizes various components of MAID and expresses concerns about further expansion should now be answering questions outside the discussion.

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@MAiDCanada2016 So yes, the process of these hearings is not perfect. But some only complain when the outcome is not what they liked to see. FYI, here what Senator Wallin refused to hear last time. I was allowed to submit evidence to remedy false accusations she made https://t.co/EOrmtGnzv8