Our @bmj.com article on #humanrights & high-priced medicines is out. We argue that using a human rights due diligence framework can promote equitable access to medicines for rare diseases. W Kanksha Ghimire, @katperehudoff.bsky.social J. C. Kohler, E. Low & N. Persaud www.bmj.com/content/391/...

My recent article in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics on Ontario MAID Death Review Committee reports, in particular on #MAID for Dementia, reveals minimalistic capacity evaluations, questionable informed consent procedures, stretching legal criteria… #euthanasia www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

“Bioethicists owe a debt to historians who excavated the research scandals of the past,…[but] you can see them at medical institutions everywhere, including your own….you may be repelled by what you see.” @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

"A joint investigation by CBC News and the Investigation Journalism Foundation has uncovered a case of serious academic misconduct at the University of British Columbia, including allegations of falsifying results collected in a human trial." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... By @bethanylindsay.bsky.social

Jotwell Health: Trudo Lemmens, The Dangers of Regulating Inducing Death as a Medical Practice, JOTWELL (October 16, 2025) (reviewing Jennifer Hardes Dvorak, Is Assisted Dying Really a Matter for Medical Regulation?, 53 J. L. Med. & Ethics 1 (2025)), health.jotwell.com/the-dangers-....

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... “Using starvation as a method of warfare is explicitly prohibited under Article 54 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and is defined as a war crime under Article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.3 These (1)

@who.int staff residence in Deir al Balah was attacked 3 times today as well as its main warehouse 2 WHO staff & 2 family members were detained. 3 were later released, while one staff remains in detention. WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff & protection of all its staff. #Gaza

"These eugenicist modes of thought persist and recur, even into visions of the future like those of transhumanism, where thinkers can envision changing the human body into that of an angel but still fail to imagine a bathroom stall wide enough for the wings."

“Should we expand eligibility for MAID?” Read my @albertaviews exchange with Nursing Prof Wilson who says #MAID #euthanasia must be expanded ‘because people want it’. I argue we need to focus on protection, not promote death further as therapy… albertaviews.ca/author/donna...

A Landmark Book on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, New Federal Bill #C218, Conferences & Press Review On this eve of Canada Day, our newsletter vivredignite.org/en/com-june-... #cdnpoli #qcpoli #CanLit #palliativecare cc @medwma.bsky.social @trudolem.bsky.social @psych-md.bsky.social

Livre événement sur l’aide médicale à mourir au Canada nouveau projet de loi fédéral #C218 et revue de presse En cette veille de la Fête du Canada, notre infolettre vivredignite.org/com-30-juin-... #polcan #polqc #soinspalliatifs cc @medwma.bsky.social @trudolem.bsky.social @psych-md.bsky.social

"Netanyahu must preserve the radical right-wing fantasy of ethnic cleansing in Gaza for political survival. For this, he needs the war to continue," Who can as self-respecting person still trivialize this?

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a towering figure the likes of which this world rarely produces. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that his influence extended far beyond his scholarship:

RAPLIQ_ exposes hate-speech on Quebec radio suggesting #euthanasia #MAiD as 'solution' for persons w severe intellectual disabilities. Time f authorities & media to act & denounce... @‪le985fm.bsky.social we expect apology & action (via @vivredignite.bsky.social ) rapliq.org/en/accomplic...

In @uoft.bsky.social Magazine, w/ my brilliant & insightful UofT Fac of Law colleague @trudolem.bsky.social magazine.utoronto.ca/opinion/risk... Timely given UnitedNations CRPD recently entreating 🍁 to repeal Track 2 expansion (...& to not euthanize Canadians for mental illness and addictions!)

NEW by @trudolem.bsky.social "The newly released reports appear to confirm what is argued in several chapters in our recently co-edited volume, Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care..." theconversation.com/ontario-chie...

1/3 Thrilled to share video of our successful "Unravelling MAiD" book launch, with my co-editors Ramona Coelho & @trudolem.bsky.social, that we held at @uoft.bsky.social Faculty Club this past week on April 15. We've generated a transcript with synchronized cc for accessibility youtu.be/-udwv3xhOAU

Due to Ohio SB1 the University of Toledo is eliminating majors in Disability Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Middle East Studies & more. Toledo was one of few places where undergrads could major in disability studies. news.utoledo.edu/index.php/04...

Looking forward to book launch At the UofT faculty Club tomorrow with co-editors Ramona Coelho & Sonu Gaind. Huge thanks to all co-authors. We will livestream Apr 15, 6:15ET, you can register for that here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

For those interested in Canada's #MAID #Euthanasia developments, and what other countries can learn from it, my Oxford Anscombe Memorial lecture is now online www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBi... @uoftlaw.bsky.social

NEW @cfraz.bsky.social "An international body of independent human rights experts has called for sweeping reforms to Canada’s (MAID) regime....Canadians deserve to know that our political party leaders will take this report seriously as we head to the polls." www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

SACHRP, a federal advisory panel on ethical, legal issues in human health research, is no longer. From me and @pharmalot.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/h...

Last week UN CRPD committee released a report that among other things, called on Canada to repeal Track 2 MAiD. Story here by @mikehager.bsky.social with comments from @trudolem.bsky.social and myself. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

@theglobeandmail.com @mikehager.bsky.social report on UN Human Rights Ctee request to repeal track-2 MAID & not expand #mentalillness & Adv Request w comments @mssinenomine.bsky.social & myself @uoftlaw.bsky.social Note shallow response Can Gov, through Health Canada, which ‘stands by its system’

‘Extremely concerned’: UN tells Canada to stop Track 2 #MAID #euthanasia & Advance requests + not expand further for mental illness #mentalhealth Meagan Gilmore reports www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/03/30/e...

UN @CRDP.bksky.social Ctee could not be clearer in its critique of Canada’s #MAID #Euthanasia regime. Urges Canada to : (a) Repeal Track 2 MAiD, incl the 2027 commencement of Track 2 MAiD for persons whose “sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness” tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...

Let’s protect Ontario’s bike lanes in this provincial election. Call on all parties to #ReverseBill212! @GreenpeaceCA act.gp/3CBhHCp

Next Tuesday, March 25, 12.30 pm at @uoftlaw.bsky.social Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar w Emily Largent "Making Decisions in the Midst of #Alzheimer 's Disease". Jackman Law Building, 78 Queen's Park. For zoom link, see www.law.utoronto.ca/events/healt...

So much for Doug Ford’s ‘common sense’ approach…. Their own commissioned reports confirm the basic fact that removing bike lanes at significant public expense will likely augment gridlock & cause injury & death www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

March 4, @ 12.30 pm @uoftlaw.bsky.social Health Law Seminar: "The UN & 2010 Cholera Epidemic in Haiti: The Racial Politics of Institutional Disregard". Alissa Trotz Brian Concannon & Beatrice Lindstromm, O'Neill Lancet Comm on Racism, Structural Discrimination & Global Health

Looking forward to joining this timely discussion of how international institutions choosing politics over public health undermined their public credibility! Join

March 4, @ 12.30 pm @uoftlaw.bsky.social Health Law Seminar: "The UN & 2010 Cholera Epidemic in Haiti: The Racial Politics of Institutional Disregard". Alissa Trotz Brian Concannon & Beatrice Lindstromm, O'Neill Lancet Comm on Racism, Structural Discrimination & Global Health

Last Friday, we were joined by @christophlyon.bsky.social & @trudolem.bsky.social for a discussion of #policy around Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying provision, in particular the ethical issues around the rapid uptake of #euthanasia in Canada. #ethics #philosophy #MAID @torchoxford.bsky.social

The Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID left thousands of volunteers around the world w/ experimental drugs + medical devices in their bodies – cut off from care by researchers running clinical trials, in violation of the fundamental principles of research www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Looking forward to give the 14th Annual Anscombe Memorial Lecture "Death as Therapy: Unravelling Canada’s Assisted Dying Regime" at the Anscombe Centre in Oxford on February 10 @ 4 pm hashtag#MAID hashtag#euthanasia bioethics.org.uk/news-events/...

www.bioethics.org.uk/news-events/... with @trudolem.bsky.social

Looking forward to present w @christopherlyons.bsky.social Feb 7 @ 4 pm at @uoiox.bsky.social on Canada's #MAID #euthanasia regime on "provider concentration, policy capture and need for reform" www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/ht25-w...

Please join: Health Law Seminar, Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 12.30 pm with Prof Patrick Garon Sayegh : “On Claiming Medical Expertise in Malpractice Cases (and Beyond): Mapping Legal, Medical and Ethical Domains” @uoft.bsky.social Law, 78 Queen’s Park, Room J 125. See poster & link for online

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... from @christophlyon.bsky.social, @trudolem.bsky.social & Scott YJ Kim

NEW article by @spichaksimon.bsky.social about advance requests for MAiD. Includes comments from myself and @trudolem.bsky.social www.beingpatient.com/quebec-canad...

Amanda Tinkwrites in @us.theconversation.com on @sfdirewolf.bsky.social s fascinating edited volume on #Disability Intimacy, with quotes from chapters by among others @mssinenomine.bsky.social @mariekeyn.bsky.social and link to order the book! theconversation.com/alice-wong-r...

Please join us Tuesday January 14, 12.30 pm, for our first @uoftlaw.bsky.social Health Law seminar of 2025 with Dr. Dr. Elena Caruso, Fellow International Reproductive and Sexual Health Programme & Dana Repka, also fellow, commenting. In person or online (via registration link in poster

@christophlyon.bsky.social Scott Kim & I analyzed Canada’s #MAID regime, and describe, with detailed evidence, ”Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform”, in the American Journal of Bioethics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

my comments on #MAID #euthanasia of patient hospitalized under MH act provisions: appears to raise "concerns that non-specialists feel comfortable to end the life of persons with mental illness who need care and protection" @nationalpost.com.web.brid.gy nationalpost.com/news/bc-psyc...

"while receiving treatment [for bipolar disorder], JMM left hospital on a day pass, visited a clinic in the afternoon & died through improper administration of #MAiD." But of course: these are all 'anecdotes' & there are no problems w Canada's #euthanasia regime www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Trudo Lemmens: "2023 figures of #euthanasia #MAID in Canada are out. Many things troubling, but already this: about 50% of 'track-2' (i.e. people not close to death) cite loneliness & burden on others as sources of suffering. Of course, DwD folks will still claim no social factors to MAID..."

@isabelgrant.bsky.social Ramona Coelho & I respond to Andre Picard & DwD, who claimed that BC interim injunction which saved life of a woman was an 'anti-choice' conspiracy: court oversight crucial when lives are at stake #euthanasia #MAID @theconversation.com theconversation.com/maid-and-the...

Orlando Da Silva on MAiD in Canada: "You want to get the pain to end. The last thing you need is someone in a white coat say ‘how about we help you end your life”...Does that contradict that voice in your head? Or does it reaffirm and confirm it?" w also my comments www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvrw...

One of the best analogies (and unanswered arguments) about #AssistedDying / #AssistedSuicide comes from David Velleman. Suppose he's having a dinner party and you're not invited... #MedSky #Bioethics 1/16

Reminder: tomorrow