Eric Mathison

Thank you. Do Catholic hospitals next.

@drjamiewatson I'm happy to buy a time share for that Norwegian writing cabin you were thinking about a while back!

@drjamiewatson I'm here for you buddy.

@historykev This is discussed in Carter. Since s. 7 was enough, they didn't address s. 15, but they described the lower court argument:

As I have patiently explained to you many times, Michael, #assistedsuicide is nothing to do with autonomy. 1 You can do it yourself - you have "the right to die". 2 If you have the right to assistance and there are any safeguards, someone else must okay your decision, which is not autonomy. 3 If you think that anyone should be able to make a private arrangement with another to be killed, you must also campaign for duelling and consensual cannibalism. Do you?

A lot of people are saying.

@igrantubc @hannahshewans Because we don't know that women are accessing MAID at a greater rate because of their social inequality. We don't know that social inequality has anything to do with it.

@mathisonej @hannahshewans Anything that consistently results in dead women is a woman's issue – it's not a numbers game. If women are accessing this for reasons related to their social inequality – how can you suggest it's gender-neutral.

It's truly wild to fill this article with stats but not mention that slightly more men get assisted dying, that Kim Leadbeater, a woman, tabled the bill, and that Liz Carr and Esther Rantzen are prominent voices in the debate. @hannahshewans glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/assist…

@RachelCDailey @hannahshewans That's not my feeling, which is why I haven't said it.

@FeministaCanada @hannahshewans This isn't true. Here's the data from the 2022 report. Here's the link: canada.ca/en/health-cana…

@mathisonej @hannahshewans In Canada 67% of assisted deaths are women.

@RachelCDailey @hannahshewans I'm aware that writers don't normally choose their headlines, so it's not Hannah's fault, but this one is particularly bad.

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Most places, including Canada and Oregon, don't break down the reasons people give by gender, so while your predictions are possible, where's the data that it's actually happening?

@mathisonej @RachelCDailey My primary argument in this piece is that women could be more vulnerable to opt for it due to cultural and financial issues, incl being more likely to feel like burdens, to have less financial means to support themselves in late life, & they're more likely to be alone in illness.

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Here's Canada:

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Which data are you finding? Here's the Netherlands:

@hannahshewans @RachelCDailey Here's Oregon:

@RachelCDailey @hannahshewans My point that slightly more men have assisted dying was in response to Hannah's claim that "Women are also a potentially vulnerable group." The worry that women will have assisted dying in greater numbers isn't supported by the data in places where it's legal.

@RachelCDailey Which assumptions did I incorrectly make? @hannahshewans's claim is that women are being left out of the debate. My response is that women are, in fact, well represented in the debate: a woman tabled the bill, Carr has her own BBC documentary, Rantzen is in the news, etc.

@hannahshewans Yes. I'm wondering how a woman with her own BBC documentary about assisted dying supports your thesis that women are being left out of the debate.

@mathisonej Liz Carr is one of the main interviews in this article..

Last year, I stopped reading the news. I think you should too. Welcome to No News November. valuejudgments.substack.com/p/no-news-nove…

I evaluate the gender claim here: valuejudgments.substack.com/p/track-two-ma… I evaluate the marginalization claim here: valuejudgments.substack.com/p/maid-and-mar…

The data simply don't support Gaind's conclusion of 'social murder'.

Since there were only 116 track-2 deaths, it's important to look at the raw numbers. 28.4% of people in the lowest material-resource quintile is an extra 9 people from an even distribution. The gender imbalance is due to 26 more women than men having T2 MAID.