Discrimination and Socially Embedded Suffering: Extending Grant’s Critique of Track 2 MAID to Mental Illness
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MAID, medical assistance in dying, mental illness, discriminationLanguage(s):
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In her paper entitled “Why Track 2 MAiD is Discriminatory,” Isabel Grant offers a compelling disability justice-based critique of Canada’s evolving MAID regime. She argues that Track 2 MAID, which concerns persons who are not approaching the end of life, is premised on a medical model of disability that obscures structural ableism and therefore discriminates against persons with disabilities. In this commentary, I show that Grant’s analysis becomes even more urgent when extended to current debates about the expansion of MAID eligibility for individuals with mental illness as the sole underlying medical condition.
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