{"id":1863,"date":"2017-01-20T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvndy.ca\/?p=1863\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:16:26","slug":"webcast-archive-750-euthanasia-deaths-in-canada-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2017\/01\/webcast-archive-750-euthanasia-deaths-in-canada-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcast archive: 750 euthanasia deaths in Canada in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EmDnw4HCzTo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>Euthanasia &amp; Disability<\/em>, Amy Hasbrouck and Christian Debray discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 750 euthanasia deaths in Canada in 2016<\/li>\n<li>What does the inauguration of a new government in the U.S. mean for the struggle against assisted suicide and euthanasia?<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMary Kills People\u201d to premiere January 25 on Global TV<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court of South Africa rejects a demand for assisted suicide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that this text is only a script and that our webcast contains additional commentary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEARLY 750 EUTHANASIA DEATHS IN CANADA IN 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An article on the CTV News website in December stated that 744 people had received a doctor\u2019s help to end their lives in 2016, not counting terminal palliative sedations.\u00a0 This includes an estimated 300 people in Qu\u00e9bec, where a law similar to the federal Medical Assistance in Dying bill came into effect in December of 2015.<\/li>\n<li>According to CTV news, their survey of provincial and territorial health ministries did not reveal the total number of requests for assisted suicide and euthanasia, nor the reasons some applications were rejected.<\/li>\n<li>Since the passage of Bill C-14 in June, Ontario leads the nation in the number of euthanasia administered at 180.\u00a0 Also according to the CTV article:\n<ul>\n<li>154 procedures were performed in B.C.<\/li>\n<li>63 were performed in Alberta<\/li>\n<li>18 were performed in Manitoba<\/li>\n<li>8 were performed in Saskatchewan<\/li>\n<li>As of Oct. 31, 16 were performed in Nova Scotia<\/li>\n<li>4 were performed in Newfoundland and Labrador<\/li>\n<li>None were performed in Prince Edward Island or the Northwest Territories<\/li>\n<li>New Brunswick, the Yukon and Nunavut did not release data &#8212; however, in the Yukon, local media have reported on one case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CTV found that the rate of euthanasia is accelerating in some regions.\u00a0 For example, one-third of the euthanasia reported in Ontario were performed in the last month of 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHAT DOES THE INAUGURATION OF A NEW GOVERNMENT IN THE U.S. MEAN FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today, a new government will take over in the United States, with Donald Trump at its head.<\/li>\n<li>Since most of the activity around assisted suicide takes place at the state level, the republican congress and administration won\u2019t have much of a say in whether assisted suicide becomes legal in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>The exception is in the District of Columbia, where Congress must approve the district\u2019s adoption of assisted suicide, and some Republicans have vowed to prevent the law from taking effect.<\/li>\n<li>Where the Republican Congress and the Trump administration are likely to cause a great deal of harm is by repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.\u00a0 Last week the senate voted to defund the law, the first step toward repealing it.<\/li>\n<li>Repeal of the Affordable Care Act will remove important protections, services and supports people with disabilities need to live independently and with dignity.\u00a0 For example:\n<ul>\n<li>Under the ACA, insurance companies could not exclude, delay or charge higher premiums to people with pre-existing medical conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Insurance companies were prohibited from imposing lifetime limits on benefits;<\/li>\n<li>The ACA included Money Follows the Person projects, where Medicaid funded initiatives to transition people with disabilities from long term care facilities into community living.<\/li>\n<li>The Community First Choice Option was a stand-alone program that enabled people to choose to live in the community with funds going toward in-home personal care services instead of institutional custodial care.<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility standards for diagnostic medical equipment, ensured that machines such as mammograms and MRIs would be accessible to and usable by people with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Medicaid expansion under the ACA enabled many people to benefit from health insurance without having to qualify for SSI or SSDI.<\/li>\n<li>Young adults could remain on their parents medical insurance up to the age of 26.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The budget reconciliation process is being used to attack ACA.\u00a0 Budget reconciliation can only affect spending, revenue and debt limits, and is not itself a repeal of the law.<\/li>\n<li>The congress will have to decide whether it wants to repeal and replace the ACA, or simply to modify the law by removing provisions it doesn\u2019t like.\u00a0 The Republicans have not proposed any alternatives to the Affordable Care Act, but say they will come up with something better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u201cMARY KILLS PEOPLE\u201d TO PREMIER JANUARY 25 ON GLOBAL TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global TV will present a six-episode series called \u201cMary Kills People\u201d beginning January 25 at 9 p.m.\u00a0 The series focuses on a fictional emergency room physician, Dr. Mary Harris, who euthanizes people in her off hours.<\/li>\n<li>TVNDY is worried that celebrating a euthanasia doctor as the hero of the drama is meant to portray euthanasia as a desirable response to disability and terminal illness, and is nothing short of propaganda.\u00a0 We are concerned that the program will fail to differentiate between people with disabilities and those with \u201cterminal illness\u201d, as often happens in public discussions of end-of-life care.\u00a0 We worry that this \u201centertainment\u201d will fail to reflect on the socio-economic vulnerability of people considering euthanasia, and avoid public policy questions such as access to palliative care and home-based services to prevent people with disabilities from being institutionalized.<\/li>\n<li>We are also concerned about the \u201cbetter dead than disabled\u201d message that is so common in fictional portrayals of assisted suicide, such as \u201cMe Before You,\u201d and \u201cMillion Dollar Baby.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA REJECTS A DEMAND FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The South African Supreme Court ruled that a lower court Judge was wrong in his 2015 judgment authorising\u00a0Robert Stransham-Ford to have assisted suicide\/euthanasia.<\/li>\n<li>According to the group \u201cEuthanasia Exposed\u201d \u201cthe Court confirmed this is really a matter for elected parliament and not\u00a0judges to decide. The lower court decision by Judge Fabricius was made in haste and did not properly\u00a0consider South African law, the international context, the country\u2019s social values or\u00a0the impact on the right to life. The medical information provided to the\u00a0court was flawed and contradicted the real medical records, which were\u00a0withheld until a court order was issued. The Supreme Court found that the case was manipulated by the euthanasia lobby group Dignity S.A., its lawyers and the estate, and the medical records\u00a0indicate Stransham-Ford was actually asking if he could back out of\u00a0euthanasia\/assisted suicide.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Stransham-Ford died two hours before the lower court ruling was handed down.\u00a0 Thanks to EPC and Euthanasia Exposed for the information in this news brief.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis week, we discuss the euthanasia deaths that have occured since Bill C-14 came into effect.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2017\/01\/webcast-archive-750-euthanasia-deaths-in-canada-in-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: 750 euthanasia deaths in Canada in 2016&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2017\/01\/webcast-archive-750-euthanasia-deaths-in-canada-in-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: 750 euthanasia deaths in Canada in 2016&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[292,121,290,118],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webcast-archive","tag-ctv","tag-euthanasia-disability","tag-south-africa","tag-webcast","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}