Sentences with phrase «prohibitions against assisted suicide»

This controversial decision of the BC Supreme Court held that the absolute prohibitions against assisted suicide in the Criminal Code violated sections 7 and 15 of the Charter (the Charter right to «life, liberty and security of the person» and the Charter guarantee of equality, respectively).

Legal prohibitions against assisted suicide have no genuine intellectual foundation; they are but the arbitrary moral sentiments of prior eras that make no binding claim upon us.

The prohibition against assisted suicide reflects this consensus and is designed to protect the vulnerable who might be persuaded to commit suicide.

The prohibition against assisted suicide serves a similar purpose.

Not exact matches

Sadly, the Canadian Supreme Court and Parliament made assisted suicide into a «right,» and in so doing imposed the moral philosophy of liberalism — free choice limited only by the prohibition against harming others — on everyone.

In Carter v. Canada the Supreme Court of Canada found that the prohibition against physician - assisted suicide violates the rights of individuals who are terminally ill or who have a disability.

In a recent judgment, Justice Lynne Smith of the British Columbia Supreme Court identified grounds upon which to reopen the question of the constitutionality of the criminal prohibition against physician - assisted dying, claiming, in effect, that while the Supreme Court had at the time of the Rodriguez been correct in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effects.

The court in Rodriguez did consider the right to life as a counterweight to liberty and security of the person and in any event, decided that the prohibition against physician - assisted suicide accorded with the principles of fundamental justice.