{"id":24890,"date":"2024-03-29T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24890"},"modified":"2024-03-29T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:33:25","slug":"calgary-judge-rules-woman-with-autism-can-seek-medical-assistance-in-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/calgary-judge-rules-woman-with-autism-can-seek-medical-assistance-in-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary judge rules woman with autism can seek Medical Assistance in Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justice Colin Feasby said his decision will be stayed for 30 days so lawyers for the father of the woman can decide whether to file an appeal.<\/p>\n

Preventing a Calgary woman\u2019s medically assisted death would cause her irreparable harm, a judge ruled Monday in ordering an injunction stopping her from ending her life be lifted.But Justice Colin Feasby said his decision will be stayed for 30 days so lawyers for the father of the woman, identified only as MV, can decide whether to file an appeal.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n
The Calgary Court of King\u2019s Bench judge said he had to weigh the potential harm an injunction would cause the 27-year-old woman, who has autism, against the harm her parents would suffer if the injunction was lifted.\u201cThe harm to MV if an injunction is granted goes to the core of her being,\u201d Feasby said in his written ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn injunction would deny MV the right to choose between living or dying with dignity. Further, an injunction would put MV in a position where she would be forced to choose between living a life she has decided is intolerable and ending her life without medical assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a terrible choice that should not be forced on MV, as attempting to end her life without medical assistance would put her at increased risk of pain, suffering and lasting injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Feasby said he understood the desire of MV\u2019s father, WV, and mother to try to keep their adult daughter alive.<\/p>\n

The father was granted a temporary injunction the day before his daughter\u2019s assisted suicide under MAID was to take place on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the woman sought to have the injunction lifted,<\/a>\u00a0arguing the decision by the woman to access MAID was a medical one that wasn\u2019t entitled to court intervention.<\/p>\n

Feasby said despite finding the injunction would cause the daughter irreparable harm, lifting it would still cause great grief to her parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe harm to WV if the injunction is not granted will be substantial,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pain of losing a child, even an adult child, is not something that any parent should experience. (The parents) have devoted their lives to raising MV from birth and have continued to support her since she has come of age.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will understandably be devastated by her death. For many parents, the loss of a child is a life-changing event that they never truly recover from. The loss is immeasurable,\u201d Feasby said.<\/p>\n

The daughter sought MAID last year and was initially approved by one doctor, but not by a second. She then sought a third opinion and was given the necessary approval of two physicians to have an assisted death.<\/p>\n

Feasby said his ruling did not foreclose the daughter changing her mind before the procedure is completed.<\/p>\n

Read more at: calgaryherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justice Colin Feasby said his decision will be stayed for 30 days so lawyers for the father of the woman can decide whether to file an appeal. Preventing a Calgary woman\u2019s medically assisted death would cause her irreparable harm, a judge ruled Monday in ordering an injunction stopping her from ending her life be lifted.But … Continue reading Calgary judge rules woman with autism can seek Medical Assistance in Dying<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6ts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24892,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions\/24892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}